“Destiny Diversity” opens today

The first solo art exhibition of Dr Hafiza Nilofar Khan, a Bangladeshi American visual artist is in town from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, will be held at Dhaka's Radius Art Gallery from March 31 to April 2. The opening of the show, entitled “Destiny Diversity” will be inaugurated by Professor Rokeya Sultana of Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Art. Architect-artist Mustapha Khaled Polash will be special guest at the event.

A former English newscaster on Bangladesh Television and the Head of the English Department at Independent University, Bangladesh, Dr. Khan is a self-taught artist, who loves to incorporate media, literature, feminist theory and pop culture into her mixed media visual art. Inspired by her husband, Dr. Carl Bloom, who is also a professor of English and an artist, Dr. Khan entered the art world in 2001, when the couple was residing in Dhaka and teaching at the North South University.

Though acrylic was the medium with which Dr. Khan started her artistic journey, after relocating to America she discovered multifarious mediums such as encaustic, alcohol ink, pebeo (oil-based French medium), gelatoes, pan pastels etc. and began experimenting with them on various surfaces.