Ghada Amer

Ghada Amer painted bold strokes of highly pigmented liquid clay on a rough-edged earthenware slab to create Girl with Red Hair. Amer’s ceramics, like her embroidered paintings, reappropriate images from mainstream American pornography, challenging the male gaze and feminist criticisms of her work. Exploring the power and pleasure of women’s lust and eroticism through materials associated with “women’s work,” she questions both Islamic fundamentalism and the Western art-history canon.