Krishnachura, Poetry of Color

The work of two Pakistani-American artists attempts to acknowledge, explore, celebrate, communicate and share their individual and collective histories of loss, migration, distance, and the inevitable 

adjustment to new environments. The work occupies the critical space that all effective art does: between 

the private and the public, the recognizable and the unfamiliar. Artworks that cannot traverse beyond the individual become decadent or irrelevant, but those that attempt to speak universally without the stamp of their creators often become formulae. Sadia and Zafar simultaneously present the experienced present with an imagined and distant past.

The pieces are personal and invite the viewer in with quiet restraint and sensitivity. 

They are particularly attracted to encounters of artistic experimentation. Their studio practice revels in chance and accidental markings as much as well thought out and planned imagery. Their collaborative pieces are informed and resourced from the memories of multiple cultures they belong to. The incredibly intricate and rich craft traditions of their Eastern heritage and the abstractions and spatial arrangements of their Western and modernist reality feature in their work as a homage to the past and an embrace of their present and future. These works have succeeded in creating a visual vocabulary that intersects with their individual personal styles but also expands on it and synthesizes to produce works of great strength and brilliance.