Tanya Minhas
ARTIST NAME
Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.
Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Tanya Minhas | A Tapestry of Dreams
September 18th - October 25th, 2025
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present A Tapestry of Dreams, an exhibition of new paintings by Tanya Minhas at the gallery’s 530 West 25th Street location. The works featured in this exhibition reflect Minhas’ ongoing interest in the natural world and the systems that hold it together.
In her new series of paintings, Minhas continues her exploration of nature’s elements, depicting terrains as she intuitively sees them. “I paint what I see from my heart’s eye, allowing nature to tell its own story,” she says. A Tapestry of Dreams presents the four elements as living systems: earth, water, fire, and air, united by the spirit. Minhas treats paint like thread and approaches her practice as a form of embroidery, mapping the interwoven relationships between nature, memory, and states of being.
Though her work touches on all the elements, Minhas often returns to water as a central symbol of change and renewal in her practice and life. She sees it as a vital connector of the earth - rain falls, rivers flow, oceans evaporate, and water moves through our bodies. Water nourishes the soil, supports germination, birth, and regulates cells that sustain life. These natural processes are interconnected and reflect a sense of balance, even during periods of slow or sudden disruption.
Movement, geometry, color, and a sense of spirit animate the organic forms and inform the visual vocabulary of Tanya Minha’s paintings. Her work draws from self-organizing patterns in nature, including branching systems, crystalline structures, cellular formations, and the movements of gravity, water, and wind, all shaped by repetition and variation. These processes follow a recursive logic, where form arises through accumulation, feedback, and adaptation. This approach renders painting parallel to embroidery. Drawing from lattice, mosaic, and other pattern-based systems, Minhas builds surfaces rooted in her passion for embroidery, a skill her mother taught her as a child. References to sacred geometry and design traditions reflect ancestral memory and the rhythm of handwork. Each mark is a blend of structure and intuition.
These works are not depictions of actual places, but dreamscapes shaped by memory, resonance, and feeling. She maps inner worlds where the sky becomes a mirror and the stars, clouds, and constellations register as internal weather. Each piece resonants as a visceral memory. The works become vessels to translate the intangible: spirit, breath, and emotion.
ARTIST NAME
e For Minhas, repetition is a mode of renewal, allowing each painting to unfold in its own time. What once lived in the hand as embroidery now moves through the body of the painting, each mark carrying memory, time, and touch. Like nature, Minhas finds that painting is always adjusting and evolving. There is no fixed center, only echoes and variation, like wind or waves tracing new paths across familiar ground. A Tapestry of Dreams reflects a pursuit of internal balance, and invites viewers to witness the natural world as something alive, vibrant, intertwined, and always in motion.
Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.
“Each painting is about an invisible memory or impression left by the myriad forces in nature... tracing an invisible pattern that I can see with my heart... and yet I am unable to express the awe of it precisely with words, only with my language of painting.” —Tanya Minhas
Tanya Minhas is a Pakistani-American artist based in New York City. She received her BA from Princeton University, an MBA from Columbia University, and studied portrait painting at the Art Students League of New York. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at Guild Hall, East Hampton; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; Chashama, New York; and TW Fine Art, Palm Beach. Public installations include projects for Joseph Editions Hotel, Nashville; Playtime New York at the Metropolitan Pavilion; and Drive-by-Art, Long Island. Her exhibitions and installations have been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Smithsonian Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Town & Country.
Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Tanya Minhas
Flowers are Blooming in My Mind, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Tanya Minhas
Sunset Painting - Palm Beach, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Tanya Minhas
The warmth of the sun, the blue of the sky, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Tanya Minhas
Sunset Painting - Palm Beach, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Tanya Minhas
A Sunset, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Tanya Minhas
Sunset (The Promise of a New Tomorrow), 2025
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Tanya Minhas
The Music of the Reeds, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Tanya Minhas
The Warmth of the Deep Sea, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Tanya Minhas
A Sunset Melting Like Gold, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Tanya Minhas
And the endless blue of the sky and the sea, 2025
9 acrylic works on canvas
11 x 14 inches (each)
Tanya Minhas Air, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Tanya Minhas Earth, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Tanya Minhas Water, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Tanya Minhas
Fire (Of my Love), 2025
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
TANYA MINHAS SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1971 Born in Multan, Pakistan
EDUCATION
2000-2010
Arts Students League, Portrait Painting with MaryBeth McKenzie
1998
Columbia University, MBA
1995-1996
Columbia University, PhD, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
1993
Princeton University, AB, Woodrow Wilson School
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Look at the World Through My Eyes, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2020
Nature Tells Its Own Story, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2016
The Shapes of My Heartbreak, Chashama 266 West 37 Street Gallery, New York, NY
2015
The Color of Our Intentions, Ardnaglass, Woodstock, NY. New York, NY
2014
Sublimation and Transformation, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Group Show, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY
2023
Art Now, Hearst Tower Galleries, Curated by Betty Levin, New York, NY
Bending the Line, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2022
Swept Away, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Small Wonders, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY
2021
Artist Member’ s Exhibition, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
2020
Saturday in the Park, TW Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL
Devout Unorthodox, TW Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL
82nd Annual Artist Member’s Exhibition, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Drive-by-Art, Long Island, NY
2019
Group Show, The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Deep Unknown, Walter Arader Himalayan Art, New York, NY
2018
With Abstract Certainty, The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Metasaga, Ardnaglass Gallery, Woodstock and Rhinebeck, NY
2013
Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, NY. Art/Csur, Southampton, NY
Tanya Minhas | A Tapestry of Dreams
September 18th - October 25th, 2025
Winston Wächter Fine Art
530 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 255-2718
nygallery@winstonwachter.com
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Cover: Water, 2024
