Commissioner x Amna Asghar

Amna Asghar, inaugural Commissioner Detroit artist, is a painter. Amna’s work looks to the American experience through a multitude of cultural motifs: from her family's Pakistani popular ephemera to Disney movies to Jean-Léon Gérôme's orientalist paintings, to Hudson River School works, to currents of contemporary political thought. She draws from her own life in the Detroit area where she grew up and now resides, making sophisticated works that mix imagery across cultures, creating conversation between communities. Learn more at commissioner.us/detroit.

Filmed by Juan Luis Matos and edited by Monica Sorelle of Prejuntas Studio for Commissioner.