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Posted in Ameheh Ispahahi, art, Artist, Cathy Stevulak, Leonard Hill, Surayia Rahman on Nov 28th, 2010
With Cathy and Len in Dhaka – meeting people connected with Surayia Rahman, the search for all artwork and history of Surayia’s amazing life-story continues. A common friend handed over to us a treasure the other day, quite unexpectedly. A set of 5 metal engraved printing blocks that were designed by Surayia Rahman for use on their stationery [...]
Posted in art, Artist, Bangladesh, Portrait, Saidul Haque Juise, Sculptor on Nov 10th, 2010
Was looking for some old images when I came across the series of Juise that I did over several days at his home and studio in April of 2008. Have put together just a few photographs [from the 100's of Juise on file] as a profile of artist Juise. I hope that the persona of Juise [...]
Posted in art, Artist, Embroidery, Surayia Rahman, tapestry on Jun 2nd, 2010
…is the artist’s exceptional talent. Surayia Rahman tapestry “The Polo Players” Click for a large view. and behind every Surayia tapestry “another story unfolds“. Click for a large view. Once the image loads, click in the center again to magnify. While photographing The Polo Players today I happened to stack the tapestry back-to-font to prevent [...]
Posted in art, Artist, Surayia Rahman on Jun 1st, 2010
A friend who has a very special collection of Surayia’s artwork gave me the opportunity to photograph a Surayia Rahman painting and several of her exquisite kantha tapestries. The crisscross lines in the painting are typical of Surayia’s work. Click for large view Their cat was a bit wary of me, but I was able to [...]
Posted in Amman Rashid, art, Artist, Exhibition on Mar 27th, 2010
“AADI” hand-crafted ornaments and jewelry by artist designer Amman Rashid from Bangladesh. click for larger view Amman uses copper, brass, silver, beads, semiprecious stones, old/antique bits, old coins, seeds, shells, jute, string, rope…. to create these unique pieces. His solo exhibition opened today at the Heritage Restaurant in Gulshan Dhaka. A couple of his close [...]
Posted in Ameheh Ispahahi, art, Artist, Bangladesh, Bianca DiBiase, Cathy Stevulak, Dhaka, Embroidery, Gallery, Photography, Surayia Rahman, tapestry on Mar 4th, 2010
Kantha Productions LLC’s project on Surayia Rahman’s life and her art has gone live on the Internet today. Their website is up and running, though still in the creation stages. A work-in-progress, with a lot more information and photographs to be added in due time. Do look often, for new content will be added! A [...]
Posted in art, Artist, Cathy Stevulak, Dhaka, Embroidery, Surayia Rahman, tapestry on Feb 12th, 2010
A friend has been involved in a documentary project on the life-story of Bangladesh artist and personality Surayia Rahman – requiring some photographs of Surayia, her art and wonderfully intricate Nakshi Kantha tapestries, photos of the women who embroider the Nakshi Kantha, and other visuals of people associated or who were associated with Surayia. I [...]