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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Ghada Amer

Ghada Amer reflects on an Iranian tile panel, Garden Gathering, in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"This is, for me, a very Matissean-like painting before Matisse."

Ghada Amer reflects on an Iranian tile panel, "Garden Gathering" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Ghada Amer, born in 1963 in Egypt, is an artist who works in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation.

Varying colors of embroidery ranging from read to cream on canvas

Ghada Amer (American, born Egypt, 1963)

Heather’s Dégradé, 2006

Embroidery and gel medium on canvas; 78 × 62 × 1 1/2 in. (198.1 × 157.5 × 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frank L. Babbott Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, and Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund, 2013 (2013.50.1) © Ghada Amer

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Garden Gathering, Stonepaste; painted and polychrome glazed (cuerda seca technique)
Garden Gathering
1640–50