Provincetown: The oldest continuous
art colony in America; a vibrant, diverse
and exciting art community that today
is home to over 50 galleries --
we're proud to be one of them.
Gallery Ehva represents exciting roster
of Provincetown and Outer Cape contemporary artists and offers
year-round workshops for beginners
and edvanced students of all ages.
We also work with local art collectors and show Early Provincetown Art and
Modern Art on consignment basis.
Our shows change every two weeks
with openings on every other Friday
evening 6 to 8pm.
Stephen Aiken
Tracey Anderson
James Bakker
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Donna Dodson
Mona Dukess
Rob DuToit
David Ellis
Nathalie Ferrier
Jenny Fragosa
Wendelin Glatzel
Irén Handschuh
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Zehra Khan
René Lamadrid
Jonggeon Lee
Bill Liebeskind
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Janice Redman
Jackie Reeves
Meg Shields
Richard E. Smith
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Tim Winn
Cyndi Wish
Ewa Nogiec, Director
art@galleryehva.com
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WHAT WE DO WHEN WE
DON'T
MAKE ART
Gallery Ehva
74 Shank Painter Road
Provincetown, MA 02657
508 487-0011
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Zehra Khan
"In a moment often indistinguishable between playing and fighting, my animals speak to the hazards of human relationships."
Zehra Khan
2010 Installation, I Only Have Eyes For You
Zehra Khan lives in Provincetown, though in the last five years has lived in such diverse places as Paris, Karachi, Saratoga Springs, and Boston, and likes creating transient transportable art. A Pakistani-American born in Jakarta, Indonesia, she grew up in Europe and moved to the US in 1994. She completed her Bachelors at Skidmore College and Master of Fine Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I transform my friends and myself into animals, painting directly on skin. This initiates a more social and collaborative art practice, and by painting on bodies I participate in acts of intimacy which are in themselves performances of social engagement. My painted volunteers become animal characters activating their environment, fictions which lay bare the very real hazards of human relationships.
The animal character is placed within an environment/installation; a complete painted background on paper or bed sheets. Sometimes the recognizable reality of furniture and props collides with their drawn counterparts. This environment crafts two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional scenarios. I play with scale, proportion and the viewers’ expectations of the space with these low-fi illusions. The final product of this act is a photograph or film in which the viewer glimpses the surreal high jinks of a human disguised as a giant animal.
My animals speak to the hazards of love. In the vulnerable experience of searching for love and companionship, many of my creatures rely on alcohol, or they become social smokers. With these blunders come anger, excessive indulgence, frenzy, bliss and bitterness, which dramatize the complex motives of people who are trying to attract a mate. To become attractive, do we start to objectify ourselves, and to whose standards? I draw these characters integrating the personal with an art history canon, lampooning stereotypes pushed in advertising and pop culture.
Last Cigarette
Drunk Drunk Bed Rat
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. 2009
Bachelor of Science, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Hamden Gallery - University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. September 2011
Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI. Summer 2011
Worcester State University, Worcester, MA. 2010
FlatBreadAffair, Brooklyn, NY. 2010
French Library Alliance Française, Boston, MA. 2010
Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MA. 2008 & 2006
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Paper/Process, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA. 2010
In-Between, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA. 2010
Artists in the Arboretum, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plains, MA. 2010
4th Video Party, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA. 2010
Collective, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. 2010
Corallo+Handschuh+Khan+Lamadrid, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA. 2010
Little Critters, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA. 2010
Photos with Words, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. 2010
First Exhibition of International Artists, Colin Parks Studio, Kirkpatrick, Scotland. 2010
Nine Lives, Doran Gallery - Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. 2010
The Yellow Show, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA. 2010
Reunion Exhibition, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY. 2010
Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY. 2010
Nude 2010, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY. 2010
Riders on the Train, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA. 2009
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. 2009
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA. 2009
Leier and Khan, Brookline Library, Brookline, MA. 2009
Why Do You Do What You Do? Burning Man Arts Festival, Black Rock, NV. 2008
Rock & Art, Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA. 2008
New Work, Zenani Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan. 2006
Thesis Exhibition, Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY. 2004
RESIDENCIES
2010 August Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010 March Contemporary Artist Center, Troy, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS
J. Fatima Martins, “Sweetheart of All My Dreams”, Worcester Magazine, December 2010.
Nell Alk, “A Grassroots Gallery Grows in Brooklyn”, NBC NiteSide, November 2010: online.
Lauren C. Ostberg, “Little Critters”, The Somerville News, August 2010: online.
Featured artist photograph, ArtScope, November 2009: page 58.
Meera Rajagopalan, “Text Messaging”, INDIA New England, vol. VII, October 2006: front page.
MURALS
New Orleans Women’s Art Collective, 2035 Mandeville Street, New Orleans, LA. 2010.
2309 Dryades Street, New Orleans, LA. 2008
2517 Jackson Ave, New Orleans, LA. 2008
Artist website: http://www.zehrakhan.com/