Throughout her nearly fifteen year career, women have been a perennial subject in the work of Bangladeshi artist Nazia Andaleeb Preema. In her often large-scale, vibrantly-hued, multi-media paintings, Preema explores aspects of women’s public and private lives, identities, and desires, as well as their bodies. Preema’s best known depictions of women feature in two ongoing series: Staring Women, begun in 2009, and Objectified, begun in 2012. Paintings from both are displayed in this exhibition. In these series the artist offers opposing manifestations of womanhood that challenge widely-held stereotypes of women’s agency and objectification both in Bangladesh and beyond.