Critic's Pick — Anila Quayyum Agha: 'Interwoven'

Anila Quayyum Agha is an artist with a strong point of view. She was born in Pakistan, moved to the U.S. in 1999 and currently lives in Indianapolis. Her art is informed by her experiences as a woman and an immigrant, but also by California’s Light and Space art movement. She works with thread, beads and upholstery needles, but also with laser-cut paper and LEDs. In other words, Agha is a true global artist for the 21st century. Her exhibition at the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery, Interwoven, is a nationally touring midcareer retrospective, and Nashville is its final stop. One work in particular will surely draw in audiences of all kinds: All the Flowers Are for Me is one of Agha’s signature laser-cut steel light boxes, and it filters light through a lacy Indo-Islamic pattern to create something stirring that will make you think about perception and how it can be changed by visibility. Come to the auditorium from noon until 1 p.m. on Friday to hear Agha speak about her own work. Registration is required. 

Through Aug. 30 at the Frist

919 Broadway