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| www.cineviews.com The Indo-American Arts Council, (IAAC) presents the Sixth Annual IAAC 'Erasing Borders 2009' September 9th, 2009 |
| New York, NY- September 9th, 2009: The Indo-American Arts Council, (IAAC) is proud to present the Sixth Annual IAAC Erasing Borders 2009: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora curated by Vijay Kumar. This community group exhibition explores the themes of cultural dislocation, memory, exile and spiritual inheritances implicit in the word; Diaspora. The exhibition comprising of 27 contemporary artists is a mix of painting, drawing and prints, photographs, C-prints, photomontages and videos; sculpture and installation. After successful exhibitions at Dowd Gallery in Cortland, NY and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, NY; the show now travels to the Queen’s Museum of Art with an opening reception on Sunday, September 13th, 2009 from 1pm-4pm. The show will then go to the Gallery at Penn College from November 13th - December 13th. This traveling exhibition explores and draws from the experiences of artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. Cultural dislocation often produces unexpected and profound results; memory collides with exile, culture engages with adaptation to understand the powerful and often disturbing concepts of change and assimilation. The artists confront issues of sexuality, terror, disease and multiple identities to weave together existence in a globalized context while subject matter is often drawn from the country of origin, many of the aesthetic values and political concerns come from the artists' newfound situations. The result deserves a new "ism", a new journey to an old destination. "Quite a few of the artists--both abstract and figurative--describe their work (or the impetus behind it) in spiritual terms, and many of the works comment directly on environmental and political issues. Khalil Chishtee's figures are made out of plastic bags. Jagdish Prabhu has 'drawn' his figures in soot (carbon), the much maligned but primal substance… (whose)...’fluidity and etherealness embody the ephemeral nature of existence.’ Pritika Chowdhry's installation titled "What the Body Remembers" is comprised of sculptures’ that investigate the potential of the… fragmented body to invoke collective narratives of trauma’, says, Vijay Kumar, curator of the exhibition. The exhibition features works by Niyeti Chadha Kannal, Nandini Chirimar, Khalil Chishtee, Neil Chowdhury, Pritika Chowdhry, Anjali Deshmukh, Anujan Ezhikode, Indira Freitas Johnson, Asha Ganpat, Ina Kaur, Adil Mansuri, Divya Mehra, Samanta Batra Mehta, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Jagdish Prabhu, Antonio Puri, Alka Raghuram, Gautam Rao, Amin Rehman, Tara Sabharwal, Pallavi Sharma, Mumtaz Hussain, Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar, Haresh Lalvani, Alakananda Mukerji, Veru Narula and Prince Varughese Thomas. GUEST SPEAKER: MARY BIRMINGHAM Since 2007 Mary Birmingham has been Director of Exhibitions at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ. She began her career at the Whitney Museum, and for nine years was a member of the curatorial staff of the Montclair Art Museum, where she helped organize historical and contemporary exhibitions. She received an MA in Art History from Hunter College, with a concentration in American Modernism. Birmingham has written and lectured on a variety of topics in American and contemporary art, and has been a regular arts contributor to The Jersey Journal. From 2004 - 2007 she worked as an independent curator and writer, and was an adjunct professor of Art History at Montclair State University. She is the author of Dynamic Impulse: The Drawings of Stuart Davis (2007) and co-author of Montclair Art Museum: Selected Works (2002). Exhibition Dates: Erasing Borders 2009 exhibition calendar: Dowd Gallery: February 27th – April 25th Crossing Art: April 29th – May 3rd Asian Contemporary Art Week: May 10th – May 18th The Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts: August 6th – August 27th The Queens Museum of Art: September 13th - October 18th The Gallery at Penn: November 13th – December 13th |