NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Saberah has a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design, (Panjab University, Lahore, Pakistan), MID, (Master of Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, New York). Her awards include Rhode State Council on Arts’ three-year General Operating Support for Artists grant (GOSA), MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Arts, Surface Design Association Award of Excellence, Handweaver’s Guild of America. Saberah is a featured artist in the Art League of Rhode Island Art Archives Film I, and in the Networks 2014 Series. She has taught widely at art and craft schools, including the Penland School of Craft and Haywood Community College of Art, NC; Wheaton and Stonehill Colleges, MA; Panjab University, Pakistan; she has also conducted workshops for several fiber craft guilds. She grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, travelling widely through Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India for family visits, or because of her father’s postings as an engineer with the railways. With an almost nomadic childhood, she addresses change, both in its prime moments and as a casualty, cause or process within her materials, process, and concepts. Known for her signature transparent textile forms, she uses shibori to explore form and color intersections for flat and spatial work. Transparency, luminosity, and reflections are an integral part of her work, from gilded wood surfaces to luminescent fabrics.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Saberah Malik, of Warwick, has combined the traditional and the innovative in both her art and her life. The daughter of an Indian civil engineer, Malik was a first generation Pakistani who grew up traveling throughout Pakistan, absorbing the region’s art and culture. She received her BFA and MFA in graphic design and was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, which brought her to Pratt Institute in New York to receive a Masters in Industrial Design. Following her arranged marriage, Malik and her physician husband moved to the United States. After her children were grown Malik returned to art making, and through the practice of shibori, she created her technique of manipulating fabric into “ethereally transparent forms of stones, bottles, and other artifacts.” She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, and has won numerous awards.
Source: NetWorks 2013 – 2014 Catalogue
Polyester fabrics, mirrors, 72 x 72 x 10 in.
Credits
Video: Richard Goulis
Music: Momin Malik
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.
Additional Resources:
Artist’s website: saberahmalik.com
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