INDO AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL
presents
IAAC ERASING BORDERS 2011
EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART OF THE DIASPORA
Exhibition dates: Monday, April 25th - Friday, May 27
Curated by Vijay Kumar
IAAC Director of Exhibitions: Tanu Jindal
Opening Reception with Dance Peformances
April 26, 6:30 pm, Charles B. Wang Center
Artists' Panel
April 26, 4:30, Lecture Hall 1
The opening reception for the exhibition features two newly commissioned dance works performed by Stony Brook University students and faculty: Amy Yopp Sullivan’s Sensorium, in which dancers discover and delight in the new and different in an ethereal dance journey through the artworks;
and Malini Srinivasan’s Stealing the Queen’s Royal Jelly, which responds to Reet Das’s painting of the same name by enacting the imagined lives of bees as they collect honey and build a hive.
The reception is preceded by an interactive artists’ panel, which foreground discussions of the creative process and the experience of diaspora.
Erasing Borders is a richly provocative exhibition by artists of the Indian diaspora who confront issues of sexuality, terror, disease, the environment, racial and sectarian politics in painting, prints, installations, video, and sculpture. With great technical mastery and diversity of theme and style, these works combine traditional Indian aesthetics with Western elements, and speak to the powerful experience of personal and cultural dislocation in the global village. In its eighth year, Erasing Borders is curated by Vijay Kumar and produced by the Indo-American Arts Council. Free and open to the public.
Participating Artists: (Click on the artists name for details): Fasihu Ahsan, Mohammed Bari,
Samanta Batra Mehta, Fareen Butt,
Amita Chatterjee, Sonia Chaudhary, Nandini Chirimar,
Neil Chowdhury, Uday K Dhar, Reet Das,
Delna Dastur, Anjali Deshmukh, Anujan Ezhikode,
Aaliyah Gupta, Mansoora Hassan, Mumtaz Hussain, Tehniyet Hussain, Samina Iqbal, Nidhi Jalan,
Sunita Jariwala-Gajjar, Reeta Gidwani - Karmarkar, Kulvinder Kaur Dhew, Aamir Khan Tarin ,
Srinivas Krishna, Shaurya Kumar, Shobha Menon,
Rahul Mitra, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Kuzana Ogg,
Avani Patel, Minna Philips, Antonio Puri, Talha Rathore, Rasika Reddy, Sangeeta Reddy,
Pinku Roy-Bari, Tara Sabharwal, Satyakam Saha,
Pallavi Sharma, Sara Suleman, Roshani Thakore ,MD Tokon, Prince Varughese Thomas
Exhibition dates: Monday, April 25th - Friday, May 27
Venue: 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY - 11790
PLEASE RSVP: tanu.iaac@gmail.com
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