09/10/2026
Perfect pairing! ✨Nadia Ahmed & Alyson Provax ✨are ready to play Hide & Seek at Spring / Break NY SPRING/BREAK Art Show , the artist-driven fair! Their collaborative installation, The Message Remains, draws together sculpture, letterpress and installation that reference text, communication and intimacy.
Nadia Ahmed Nadia Ahmed is a Pakistani-American artist and arts administrator currently based in Seattle, WA. She moved from Los Angeles to Seattle in 2014, where she studied Art History and Three-Dimensional Forum at the University of Washington. Nadia’s exhibition history includes Mini Mart City Park, SOIL Gallery, The Vestibule, and Hedreen Gallery. She has been an artist in residence at Nii Modo and Inscape Arts, and is currently a resident artist at Actualize in Pioneer Square, Seattle.
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To understand that a person hides behind words – this is the first game of language, one played by Ahmed and Provax. In wax, wire and string, Ahmed writes messages to and from her family; Provax uses and misuses letterpress to iterate messages from the interior self.
Alyson Provax Alyson Provax is a text based artist. Her primary medium is letterpress and she often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals. This calls into question the didactic certainty of text and can cause the viewer to notice the experience of reading. She is interested in the ways that we communicate things we are a bit uncertain of and how we tie our understanding of ourselves to language.
To understand that a person hides behind words – this is the first game of language, one played by Ahmed and Provax.
In wax, wire and string, Ahmed writes messages to and from her famil
