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The Mercury news, Oct 20, 2024
Euphrat’s new exhibit aims to capture ‘Glimmers’ of connection
…“In “Feel Seen,” artist Bushra Gill reflects on feeling simultaneously invisible and on display because of her headscarf and an obligation to always wear a smile to counteract the scarf’s otherness.
“Emigrating at a young age from Pakistan and feeling apart from everything compels me to think about connection, especially an underlying structure of everything around us that unites us to each other and to nature, time, and space,” Gill said.”…
ART ABOUT TOWN, July 2024
OAKLAND ART MURMUR
“Sometimes art gives a memory meaning, and sometimes memory gives art a meaning. In the current show at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, curator Bushra Gill presents both cases, sometimes separately and sometimes blended, in a show that feels bigger and bigger the longer you explore it.
Gill’s show, which runs through July 27th, focuses on the idea that experiences which make up our sense of quality of life become permanent residents in our psyche and go with us to wherever else we call home.”
CANVAS REBEL, OCT 2024
MEET BUSHRA GILL
“We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Bushra Gill. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Bushra below.
Bushra, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?
If I went back in time and changed the course of my career, I don’t think I would be the person nor the artist I am now. Of course, I have thought about what my career would look like if I had not shelved my art career so long ago. …
ARCADIA, Dec 2023
THE GALLERY
“California is home to some of the most influential artists in the world. We are celebrating the work of three incredible California-based artists that are inspiring a new generation.
Bushra Gill is based in Oakland, California. She is inspired by Islamic geometric patterns and tesselates images from everyday life to create rich and complex surface structures. Her subjects are simultaneously revealed and concealed, allowing Bushra to explore ideas of what is present, but veiled - like her hair which she covers with a scarf in public.“
BOLD JOURNEY, AUG 2024
MEET BUSHRA GILL
“We recently connected with Bushra Gill and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Bushra, so excited to talk about all sorts of important topics with you today. The first one we want to jump into is about being the only one in the room…Can you talk to us about how you have managed to be successful even when you were the only one in the room that looked like you?
…Art made me an oddball in the Pakistani community, in the Muslim community, and membership in those groups didn’t align easily with the art world.”
UPPERCASE magazine, Jul/Aug/Sep 2022
FRESH
“I returned to making art just a few years ago, after a 20-plus-year hiatus after graduating from art school. The need to make things and look at art never left, so I worked in graphic design and fashion, all the while teaching in museums and galleries. A cross-country move 12 years ago halted my career, and I got busy raising my two young sons. When I turned 40, it was time to return to a regular art practice, although the first few years were very slow and frustrating….”