VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Anya Tish Gallery is pleased to announce two Houston inaugural solo exhibits by Texas-based artists, Paul Booker and Simeen Farhat, which independently deal with the complexities of visual and textual language within themes of nature and cultural identity.

Myriad features a series of intricate abstract sculptures by Paul Booker that explore underlying patterns found within nature’s choreography,while Masnavi(small poem in Urdu) comprises of a series of text-based sculptures by Simeen Farhat, which explore the relationship between cultural heritage and language.

Paul Booker lives and works in Dallas, Texas and is a professor of art at the University of Texas. He has exhibited consecutively at The Museum of Art in Austin and The Museum of Art in Dallas as well as galleries in New York and Texas. Simeen Farhat, a Pakistani-born artist, lives and works in Dallas, Texas and teaches at the University of Texas. She has been included in the 2009 Texas Biennial and recently had a solo exhibit at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary and the Haggerty Gallery in Dallas and has upcoming solo shows in Philadelphia and in Karachi, Pakistan.

 The Artists will be present at the Opening Reception Friday, January 8, 6-9 PM. Exhibition on view through February 6, 2010.