Tom Deatherage at the Late Show has a knack for spotting new talent.
The gallery’s October exhibition includes intriguing fabricated steel works by Asheer Akram, a 2007 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Although Small’s influence is apparent in Akram’s intricate cut-metal artworks, the sources and ideas of the two artists are very different.
Akram’s major inspiration is the famed Aga Khan collection of Islamic art, which he saw on a January visit to the Louvre with his father, a first-generation immigrant from Pakistan. (His mother came from Poplar Bluff, Ark., and Akram was born in Oklahoma City, where his parents met.)
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