Giclee Reproductions - Seattle Landmarks
22"x30" Original Watercolors -- Women of India
Places that stay with me
I paint Ballard because salt settles on my front door, because wind visits my porch each evening, because the sea and the small, steady life around it keep leaving their marks.
My gallery is in Columbia City. I came for the walls and stayed for the people. Strangers tap my shoulder. Wait staff pull up chairs. Conversations open like windows… feels less like the city and more like a small town that keeps noticing me back.
“Unsurprisingly in art from or about a politically volatile culture, the work is grounded in social ideas. Ameen Dhillon’s diaristic, accordion-fold book of prints is haunted by ghosts of a colonial past.”
“[Ameen Dhillon’s] The Mango Tree [shown at Diasporadics, an art festival held in New York City] generated a sense of locality that “expresses itself” in certain kinds of agency, sociality, and reproducibility ... for the young South Asians who gathered ... The Mango Tree was critical to producing a shared experience of sociality...”
musings
You can follow Ameen’s latest activities on Instagram at AmeenDhillonArt or just get a flavor for her posts below.
“While ... real estate magnates pursue their vision of a worldclass Vancouver, [Ameen Dhillon] is immortalizing some of the city’s neglected old buildings ... From photos and sketches, she produces striking lithographs.”
“Ameen’s work is frequently about exteriors ... predominantly black and white store fronts and buildings, beautiful, often historical and ornate, contorted, off kilter ... Grandiosity, whether declared by the looming lithographs or contained within miniatures. All of these impressively detailed prints have presence in their stoic absence of the human.”
Clock Out Lounge and Stevie’s Pizza 6×8 original watercolor on cold press watercolor paper. Serving live music and Pizza to Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood.