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GUGGENHEIM CONSERVATOR JEFFREY WARDA ON ZARINA
AND HER “DRAWINGS MADE OF SHADOW” BY CAITLIN DOVER

Walk into Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction, an 17, Paris, and at Toshi Yoshida Studio, Tokyo, in the 1960s
exhibition of work from the 1960s and ’70s now on view at and ’70s. Now based in New York, Zarina is known for
the Guggenheim, and you’ll see two rows of frames holding her minimal approach, her interest in paper, and her
what appear to be blank white sheets of paper. Move closer, interweaving of personal and political issues, such as
and you’ll start to notice subtle marks: thousands of tiny memory, the body, borders, and dislocation.
holes piercing the surface of each sheet. Her materials and process hold particular fascination to
Jeffrey Warda, the Guggenheim’s Senior Conservator, Paper
This piece, Untitled (1977), is the work of artist Zarina and Photographs. Warda met with Zarina in her studio to
Hashmi (who prefers to use her first name only). Born in discuss Untitled, which is part of the museum’s permanent
1937 in Aligarh, India, Zarina studied printmaking early in collection. Here, he answers a few questions about the artist
her career, with stints at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier and her work.

Installation View: Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Photo: David Heald, © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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