Figurative painter, Mequitta Ahuja, discusses how her work signifies the refashioning of figurative tradition by the abilities of the picture-maker, who is a woman-of-color. Her exhibition, Meaningful Fiction & the Figurative Tradition, will be displayed in the Stone Center from September 14 through November 22. In this series, one thing I noticed almost instantly was the shift in space and dimension that was due to the use of borders in many of her works. In her exhibition opening, she discusses how this kind of feature has the effect of allowing the figure to be in both the historic conventional aspects of the painting and in the current space outside the work. This concept of being inside and outside of the work was very interesting
