In the inaugural exhibition on view through the fall, The Young Team x CMAA is pleased to present the work of emerging artist Nadya Haider. Haider, a Washington DC-born, New York-based artist, explores the creative, didactic, and expressive power of the line. Through intuitive doodling, poetry, and geometric shapes coupled with textual compositions, Haider interrogates where the meaning of a line begins and ends. When does a line’s form or shape imbue or obscure meaning? When does an “A” become or cease being an “A”? When does a mass of swirls become the ringlets on a child’s head or devolve into a visualization of emotional turmoil? In Haider’s work, a 16-word poem may offer no more clarity than a triptych of monumental abstract doodles. With her signature minimalist visual language, Haider forces viewers to question what they know and how they know it. Grappling with notions of what knowledge is and its reliability, viewers encounter a mirror of modern society in which people can neither trust nor verify and must only rely on the truth within.

Nadya Haider attended Duke University and Stanford University Law School, and has spent her adult life as a student, attorney, teacher, and artist.