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Akhtar lives and paints in his home
studio in Redmond, WA. He is a member of the new City of Sammamish Cultural
Arts Commission. Akhtar was born in Bombay, India and has studied Architecture
both in India and at MIT in the US. Akhtar is mostly a self-taught artist
and is involved in a number of professional and voluntary activities both
internationally and in the Seattle area. He is also the author of Our
Urban Future: New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability. Akhtar paints
using acrylic on canvas, paper and plywood. He creates figures of male
and female form using bright colors. His paintings are colorful and expressive.
He uses bright flat colors on canvas and paper, evoking the rich colors
of his native India. On plywood he uses a knife and creates layers of
bright colors as a relief work. He is presently working on several images
of bulls both on paper and plywood. Akhtar has exhibited some of his work
in India, and in Cambridge Massachusetts
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