Ghada Amer (Egypt, b. 1963), Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie, 1995-2004. Embroidery on cotton (Each): 70 7/8 x 27 9/16 x 4 in. (180 x 70 x 10.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist

BROOKLYN, NY.-Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, the first major U.S. retrospective of the renowned artist's work, will feature some fifty pieces from every aspect of Amer's career as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, garden designer, and installation artist. These include the iconic Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie (1995), The Reign of Terror (2005), and Big Black Kansas City Painting (2005), as well as a generous selection of works never before exhibited in this country. The exhibition will be on view from February 16 through October 19, 2008.

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns. The submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love, the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty, constitute the territory that she explores and expresses in her art.

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Ghada Amer (Egypt, b. 1963), And the Beast, 2004, Acrylic, embroidery, and gel medium on canvas, 66 x 79 in. (167.6 x 200.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist