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 Jeet Aulakh
Email: info@jeetaulakh.com
Web: www.jeetaulakh.com
Jeet Aulakh is a deeply spiritual painter, all his body of work reflecting that mystery, magnetism and magic usually associated with music. To me, the key to his paintings is to think of them as sounds, recorded on canvas and ready to be played for the tuned-in spiritual receptor. He is creating non-objective, hard edge paintings, very much like Claude Tousignant. |
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Title: Namo Yoga Yoge
Dimension: 48 x 60
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2009 |
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 Samanta Batra Mehta
Email: samanta_batra@yahoo.com
Web: www.samantabatramehta.com
Samanta Batra Mehta was born in New Delhi, India in 1975. She has exhibited her work at various venues in India and the US including Hacienda Art Gallery and Bodhi Art Gallery in Bombay, the Queens Museum, AIR Gallery, Guild Art, Crossing Art Gallery in New York. Samanta has degrees in Economics and Information Systems from St Xavier’s College, Bombay and the London School of Economics, London. |
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Title: Sita’s Escape#1
Medium: C Print with Lustre Lamination on Plexi
Dimension: 21.75" x 36"
Date: 2009 |
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 Nandini Chirimar
Email: nandini.chirimar@yahoo.com
Nandini Chirimar grew up in Jaipur, India and came to the USA in 1987 for further studies. She did a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cornell University, a summer residency at the Skowhegan School of Art, and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute. Additionally, she studied viscosity printing from master printmaker Arun Bose, and spent four years in Japan learning woodblock printing from Taika Kinoshita, exhibiting her work and teaching art. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. |
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Title: City Journal
Dimension: 5'x5'
Medium: Kozo paper, drawing, woodblock printing, gold leaf, collage and embroidery
Date: 2009 |
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 Ruby Chishti
Email: rubychishti@yahoo.com
Born in 1963 in Jhang Pakistan Ruby chishti now lives and work in USA and Pakistan. As a fourth daughter in a middle class Pakistani family Ruby experienced closely the bias that society hold towards a female child, her work often voice the very notion.She Studied at National College of arts, Lahore Pakistan. Soon after graduating in 1988 she disappeared from the art circuit for almost 11 years to take care of her severely disabled mother. She recorded her in the form of small sketches while she sleep…or help her husband in his projects. |
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Title: Live, laugh, love
Medium: Fabric,thread, wood, paper on wire mesh.
Dimension: 76 x 42 x 30
Date: 2009 |
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 Pritika Chowdhry
Email: pritikastudio@gmail.com
Web: www.pritikachowdhry.com
In my current work, I am exploring cultural forms of memory, and representations of historical trauma. I am interested in exploring the potential of materials to create commemorative objects that can be vessels of memory. The primary focus of my art practice is large-scale sculptures and site-sensitive installations that reference the body. I think of my works as “memory sculptures”, an eloquent term coined by cultural scholar, Andreas Huyssen. Transnational in scope, these works are informed by historical traumas that have become part of the collective memory of a community or a nation. Installed in experiential environments, they function as mobile and temporary memorials.
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Title: The Shadow Lines
Medium: Digital prints on Indian dupioni silk, walnut ink, hand and machine embroidery, wood, acrylic paints.
Installed dimensions: variable.
Object dimensions: 21” x 8” each panel, 54” x 54” wooden Pachisi board ensemble.
Date: 2009 |
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 Neil Chowdhury
Email: scoopneil@gmail.com
Web: www.neilchowdhury.com
Neil Chowdhury is an artist working in photography, digital video and mixed media. His work explores the relationships between individuals, their societies, and environments in different cultures. Currently he is working on projects exploring his Indian heritage. Mr. Chowdhury is an assistant professor and director of the photography program at Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York. He has also taught at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Title: Street Barber Shaving Customer in Fort Area, Mumbai
Medium: Digital Photograph, Digital Pigment Print
Dimension: 18x24"
Date: 2008 |
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 Erum Chughtai
Email: echughtai@gmail.com
Erum Chughtai was born in 1976, Quetta, Pakistan and received BFA (specialized in Miniature Painting) from National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan (1999). She had several group exhibitions at National Gallery, Alhamra Arts Gallery, Croweaters, Ijaz Gallery and Canvas Gallery. She moved to USA in 2003 and attended an art residency in Vermont. She lives and works in Long Island, NY.
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Title: Untitled
Medium: Ink Wash on Wasli
Dimension: 13"/17" (without frame)
Date: 2009 |
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 Anujan Ezhikode
Email: anujanek@aol.com
web: www.anujanezhikode.com
Anujan Ezhikode was born in India and studied at the Kerala Kalamandalam, Kerala State Academy of Arts, a school famous for its classical dance, music, and theater programs. He trained in, and taught, makeup and costume making for two classical theater arts. One of them Kutiyattam, the world’s oldest continuous theater form dating from the 10th century and the other Kathakali, a 17th century dance-drama.
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Title: Vertical Garden
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 72x36
Date: 2009 |
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 Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar, Painter
Email: reets17@yahoo.com
Web: www.reetagk.com
From the time I held my first crayon there was never any doubt in my mind that I would paint. High school included a silver medal in an international juried art show in Seoul. My work, which was fairly figurative until that point, changed after I got a scholarship to the Accademia di Belle Arte in Rome.
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Title: Moon Shadow
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: Height 36" x width 28"
Date: 2008 |
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 Nidhi Jalan
Email: nidjalan@gmail.com
Web: www.nidhijalan.com
My work is informed by memory and cultural myths recast in a contemporary context. I am an artist from India living in New York. The tension in my work arises from the co-existence of opposing forces fundamental in Indian culture. The Hindu trinity-represented literally as the three gods Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva and metaphysically as the three principles of creation-maintenance-destruction-is core to the cosmology of Hinduism. This tension provides the basis for balancing my formal ceramic practice and conceptual fragmented narratives explored through cross-disciplinary installation.
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Title: Ashwattha,
Medium: Collage
Dimension: 3.8’ X 5’
Date: 2009 |
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Shaurya Kumar
Email: shauyakr@gmail.com
Web: www.shauryakumar.com
Artist (the subject) coming in contact with the physical environment (the object) enters a relationship in which the subject-object interplay begins to form a new world of perceptible realities.
On this new plane / playground the creative imagination of the artist constructs a parallel reality - a reality that is based on this dynamic interaction between the artist-being and nature. Here is revealed the hidden and the unseen from the surface of the physical reality.
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Title: Three Worlds
Medium: Etching
Dimension: 18.5” x 23.5”
Date: 2004 |
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 Haresh Lalvani
Email: hlalvani@aol.com
Dr. Haresh Lalvani is a tenured professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute where he is also the co-director of the Center for Experimental Structures. He is the inventor of ALGORHYTHMS and XURF product lines developed in the ongoing collaboration with Milgo-Bufkin. His AlgoRhythm Columns are in the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. His work has been supported by NASA, NYSTAR, NEA, Graham Foundation amongst others, and he received the Pioneers' Award from the Space Structures Research Center, University of Surrey, UK. He was an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St.John the Divine, New York for a decade.
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Title: HyperSurface series
Medium: light and delicate, made in steel, laser-cut parts welded. natural steel plus rust finish, lacquered.
Dimensions: spheroid 2' large dia and the about 8" on the short dia.
Date: 2007 |
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 Obaidullah Mamoon
Email: obaidullah.mamoon@gmail.com
Born: 1962, Bangladesh.
Education: B.S.S (hon's) M.S.S (political science) University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Art Education: Graduation in photography, New York institute, New York: 1990
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Title: Fireworks
Medium: Fine Art Giclee Print on Watercolor Paper
Dimension: 24X18
Date: 2009 |
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 Chetan Mangat
Email: chetan@chetanmangat.com
Multi channel video installation, 2008 In 1984 the prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguard's which led to violent outbreaks against all people of the Sikh faith in IndiaThis video is the representation of an event that was experienced by the artist during the 1984 riots. It took place in northern India, inside the compounds of his boarding school. He was eight years old at the time.
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Title: Running at you Video Still
Medium: Multi channel video installation,
Date: 2008 |
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 Urmila Mohan
Email: urmila_mohan@yahoo.com
Web: www.urmilamohan.com
As an immigrant South Asian woman in the U.S., I am subject to attributions of difference based on constructs of race, gender, and historical and philosophical biases. Through self-representations, I explore ideas of difference and the relation between depth and surface, the corporeal and spiritual, and the transcendent and the immanent Our skin imbues us with humanity and individuality and forms the vocabulary of personhood. Humans expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. In a figure of speech or writing, the word ‘skin’ often represents the wholeness of self as in “I nearly jumped out of my skin.
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Title: LOTUS
Title: Handbuilt clay, Paint
Dimension: 24x17x14"
Date: 2007 |
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 Avani Patel
Email: avani_r_p@yahoo.com
Web: www.freewebs.com/avanipatel/
Music evokes the body to respond to a rhythm and become an embodiment of exuberance, expression and movement. My idea of painting is that it is a performance with music that creates a whole new language of abstract harmony, as a means of expressing music in visual form. The inspiration of Indian performance and various music selections inspire a language of expression, rhythm, and abstract figures which form pattern on my canvases.
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Title: Kiss
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 4'x 4'
Date: 2009 |
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 Pinku Roy-Bari
Email: pinkuroy@yahoo.com
Education:
2001-03&07-Continuing education (painting&schulpture), the art student leauge,NY.
2001-MFA in painting.Visva-bharati University.India.
1999-BFA in painting.Visva-bharati University.ndia.
Important Exhibition:
2008-Printmaking group show in the ASL of NY.. -“RED DOT” show in the ASL of NY.
2007:’Small Works’ show in Soho20 gallery in Chelsea,NY..
2002-Artist group show in 1199art gallery.NY. Annual
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Title: Untitled-1
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimension: 18x18"
Date: 2008 |
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 Talha Rathore
Email: talharathore@gmail.com
In these works I seek to unravel the mysteries of cellular forms, viruses, and bacterias as they appear, disappear, and metamorphose. I put life itself under the microscope and is struck by the metaphorical possibilities of these encounters. Navigating these enigmas, I invest such forms with anxieties that threaten to engulf me. I invent conversations, skirmishes, rivalries, and alliances between battalions of minuscule forms, which become actors in these narratives. I try to employ marks in fluid ways. Some hark back to early lessons in the miniature studio at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. There were also hours, days and weeks of drawing line after line across the page, until its slightest nuance could be foretold and held up for scrutiny. |
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Title: Remember Me
Medium: Gouache on wasli
Dimension: 11” X 15"
Date: 2008 |
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 Rasika Reddy
Email: rasikareddy1@yahoo.com
Rasika Reddy is an artist based in Summit, New Jersey. She was born in India and was educated in India and England. She decided to pursue her passion for art while living in England. Drawing from her own background she tries to create a visual language that is evocative of an eastern culture. She believes that visual art is an under utilized medium for understanding other cultures. The amalgamation of the various cultures over the centuries has become the main subject of her paintings. She uses many layers of different cultural images, and icons to portray a coming together of different worlds. |
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Title: Smoke 1
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimension: 18”W X 24” H
Date: 2009 |
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 Satyakam Saha
Email: kamsatya@yahoo.com
Web: www.satyakam.org
Drawing is a perfect vehicle for the exploration of content, lending itself readily to an expression, sometimes abstract. For this group of work, I explore newspaper as the ground on which to develop the drawings. I chose pages with a dramatic, odd, or ambiguous picture or headline. I recognize that there is an important element of surrendering to the experience, letting the final form evolve through the process of making. This involves blurring the distinctions between image and text by “pushing and pulling.” Emphasize and mute. Add and subtract. |
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Title: residue2
Dimension: 18 x 24"
Medium: mixed media on paper
Date: 2009 |
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 Sheena Sood
Email: sheenasood@gmail.com
Web: www.sheenasood.com
Sheena Sood was born in Minnesota and received a BA in Visual Art and Comparative Literature from Brown University in 2006. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Providence. She has studied textile design at Central Saint Martins College in London and at The Rhode Island School of Design. Sheena currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. |
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Title: untitled
Dimension: 35 x 45"
Medium: Handwoven tapestry-mixed yarns and metal pieces and embroidery
Date: 2006 |
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 Anjali Srinivasan
Email: anjalivasan@gmail.com
The Sheesh Mahal (palace of mirrors) was a Hindu-Islamic architectural style from the 17th century Indian subcontinent. Walls and ceilings were encrusted with convex mirrored glass shards in mesmerizing intricate patterns. The resultant optical phenomenon was simple : Each mirrored shard reduced the attractive self-image to a small particle. Yet, if a small lamp were held in the palm of one’s hand, the specular reflection would be multiplied many times to create a hypnotic wave pattern that would cascade across the large chamber as one moved. In turn, illuminating the chamber. |
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Title: Object Monologues with Quiver vessels,
Medium: Digital video, mirrorized glass, silicone, lintfree white gloves, participant.
Dimension: 8-10” dia x 8-12” H (vessels), Variable dimensions
Date: 2009 |
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 Roshani Thakore
Email: roshanithakore@gmail.com
Web: www.roshanithakore.com
As a first generation Indian American, I am continuously exploring the dual discourse between my Indian ancestry and my contemporary American experience. Through the languages of post-minimalism and abstract expressionism, I am interested in examining the elements of my cultural background to create organic forms that allude to history, time, natural forces and lost cultures. Deconstructing the notion of fixed identity through materials and process, I aim to reconstruct a version of self that transcends cultural traces and simultaneously magnifies them. |
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Title: Shifting (work in process)
Medium: Dirt, rangoli powder, acrylic, glitter, sequins, glue, rice, salt and cotton Installed dimensions Variable
Dimension: Installed dimensions Variable
Date: 2008 - current |
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 Yetish Yetish
Email: yetish@yetish.com
Web: www.yetish.com
Imagery captured my imagination early it seems. At eight, I remember waiting for delivery of Life and National Geographic magazines to feast my eyes over photographs. Watching artists paint cinema murals across the street from my grandmother’s home was fascinating: blank canvas coming to life. My mother encouraged me to take classes in drawing and painting. I became ecstatic when my uncle lent me his camera. Being able to capture 72 pictures on a roll of film, I photographed many things. |
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Title: Untitled 4, Norwalk CT
Print media: Digital prints
Medium: Digital Photographs
Dimension: 12X18
Date: 2009 |
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