Julio Fine Arts Gallery

Nawai Zindagi (The Tune of Life) 2013 Miniature painting (gadhrunk) with illumination using gold, gold leaf, lapis lazuli, emerald, turquoise, turmeric, vermillion, coffee and black ash on handmade paper             While attending the Turquoise Mountain Institute, an art school in Kabul, the Afghan capital, Sughra Hussainy took to her art and painted this miniature. She began by painting the shamsa , the circular design, and then filled in the interior with a lyrical and tranquil scene in which a woman plays a tamboura while kneeling beside a stream. The woman is a quiet radical and despite the serene air conveyed in the piece, she makes a bold statement, since women in Afghanistan typically are forbidden to play music. Sughra Hussainy, Public Lecture, “Behold how eloquent I am in my silence”                 ...

Behold How Eloquent I Am In My Silence The Art of Sughra Hussainy Sughra Hussainy attended the Turquoise Mountain Institute in Kabul, from 2011 - 2014.  This school trains artists in traditional techniques to revive and preserve the cultural heritage of Afghanistan.  In 2016, Hussainy showed pieces in the Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan  exhibition at the Smithsonian's Freer/Slacker Gallery.  This exhibition brought success for Hussainy, but her growing artistic reputation combined with her desire to bring about social change put her life in danger.  In 2017, she was told that it was unsafe for her to return to Afghanistan, so she has remained in the states since.  Hussainy enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art's MFA in Community Art Program in the Fall of 2018.  She lives and works in Baltimore. Sughra Hussainy is trained in Afghani and Islamic styles of art including miniature painting, calligra...