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IAAC Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary
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 Niamul Bari
During my traveling, I try to get the feelings of nature, human activities, ritual and spirituality. When I came to New York, I saw many interesting things. There were different kinds of people and life style. On the subway stations and the streets, I saw many interesting textures and colors, it happened automatically. When I use the objects on my paintings, objects loose their quality, they make their own languages. My personality is self-thought with spirituality. When I do my artwork with spirituality, I would go to the unconscious level. |
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Small Painting No. 29
8x12 inches
2012
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 Bivas Chaudhuri
Web: www.aaartsalliance.org/profile
/BivasChaudhuri.com
My current work is involved with space, which is full of energy. I use repetitive visual elements and meditative process to energize the whole space. The highly structured slowly changing imagery is a close resemblance of my deep state of mind. It is emblematic of modern times mixed with personal feelings and impression of nature.
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Vital Sign
acrylic,
48"x48"
2009
12000
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 Ranna Chaudry
www.rannaart.com
My work explores the absurdity of human nature, especially the ridiculousness of how we perceive others and how others perceive us. Words I employ are feeble to express the visions I portray of how I see the human mind functioning within the universe known and unknown. The individual tries to preserve his unique/ flamboyant nature amongst the social circus-like atmosphere. There are records kept throughout human history of actions of folly and enchanting greatness and all that seems inexpressible in between. From the individual to the social animal on the stage of the world, my work attempts to portray the analogy of the colorful circus themed celebrations built by the human mind and the universe it is contained in. My work is a celebration of human life, the circus of life. There are infinite ways the human mind works and there are infinite ways to interpret life. That is what the world of the circus offers; colorful perspectives of infinite choices. |
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Silent Vintage
Oil on Canvas
24in X 48in
2012
$1000
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 Pritika Chowdhry
I engage with cultural forms of memory and representations of trauma through my creative practice. Often the starting point of my creative projects is deep research in a particular historical event or events of contemporary significance. My earlier projects have comprised of a series of installations that memorialize partitions and ethnic fissures occurring in the 20th century. In a recent project, I expanded the scale of my work to include architectural spaces and monuments as sites of memory. I made latex casts of the monuments to allude to the material body of the monument, and incorporated video and archival text in the resulting installation. In another recent project, I mined historical archives of post-world war I events, and utilized small but evocative vessels as containers of memory. Installed in experiential environments, these projects function as mobile and temporary memorials. |
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Naturalized
Wood
48" x 48"
2011
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 Reet Das
I have been shaped by my experiences, memories, and dreams of growing up around animals in urban settings. Besides the many pets my family had, I marveled at wildlife existing on rooftops, crevices in sidewalks, and the gaps within abandoned buildings. They are tied to us as we are tied to them and each wrestles for space in a continually expanding urban jungle. I curiously witnessed this displacement of as concrete and asphalt swallowed up flora and fauna. As a child, my love and curiosity of the natural world was deepened through Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" and the "Jungle Book", Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, and books about Shark attacks that I obsessed over in the library after school. Animals became odd super-heroes and mentors surrounded by fur, scales and feathers. Now as an adult, I have become their savior when I find them injured or abandoned…still, within the confines of my urban jungle. |
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The Benefit of Imperfect Navigation
Maritime Map, Gouache
Acrylic, Graphite
O n Paper & Wood panel
30" x 20"
2012
$4,500
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 Anjali Deshmukh
Web: www.anjalideshmukh.com
I make conceptually grouped or related works - paintings, digital drawings, and texts - that are often the side effects, artifacts, or fallout of some larger narrative or factual constellation. The constellation shapes the reasoning of the images, circumstance, artworks, or fiction that are shed with its passing. I use terms like "lens," "map," or "documentary" or “game” to explain a working process that creates specific relationships between pieces. A "lens," may be a drawing or text applied to the act of painting, a mode of seeing or a tool for comprehension, while the painting embodies practice. A "map" may be a larger geographic space (metaphorical/imagined/real) within which a painting navigates a cultural, political, or natural phenomenon. A “game” may be a generator, a roulette wheel of theoretical images that can’t escape from the laws of randomness. An image may guide a process or be the visual and mythological legend that endows meaning upon a "situation," or a narrative. |
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 Claudia Dias
I am interested in Macro- and Micro-structures, which reflect in a broader sense our human dimensions.
In these 3 larger etchings (ca. 5.5"x 5.5") I am looking into the surface of objects which obviously are bigger then what we can see, but which can tell their long history through their surfaces' "interactions". .
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"Hollows" dot planet mercury surface, here appearing as high reflectance features near the main crater's central peak and around its floor wall boundary. From messenger mission.
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 13.5x 14 in with frame: (max:21.5 x 22in)
Price: $2750 framed |
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 Anujan Ezhikode
Web: www.anujanezhikode.com
My art begins with the unearthing of a memory. Once found that illuminates my artistic thinking. My images are composed of very basic elements but represent the essential parts of life…energy, growth, and full foliage are all part of the cyclical nature that interests me. Each glimpse of a memory also has a life cycle. We look back, we can see how one moment grows, then gets reinterpreted, and goes through the cycle again. This "life cycle" brings out the process of connections. |
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 Mustafa Faruki
My practice concerns the experimental possibilities available in architectural representation. Architects typically use representational types (i.e.: drafting, modeling, mapping, visualization) as a means of describing their design inten- tions. Through a specialized visual code-- some parts formally standardized, others tacitly understood-- architects outline their desires graphically, and these images are in turn built into reality. As such, representation in architecture is often part of a linear chain of events, located at or near the start of a narrative that begins with the image of an object and ends with its construction. |
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THE JETWAY
Archival print (on Arches Watercolor)
with stamped ink & transfer type
60 X 17 "
2011
$800
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 Ruee Gawarikar
My works are about the predicament of an individual in a chaotic, urban environment. They stream from my experiences of being born and brought up in India. Having been part of a booming and vigorously developing nation, I witnessed an extreme change in lifestyle and subsequently in outlook and priorities. My paintings depict the extreme fragmentation of a multifaceted man arising from contrasting thoughts of higher aspirations and complex material ambitions. They portray the excesses of humans and subsequent consequences on the psyche and mind. |
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 Dhanashree Gadiyar
Web: www.dhanni.shenoy.me
The foundations of my passion for art were formed during my undergraduate degree in "fine arts" painting at Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore, India and became deeper during my graduate degree in "Museology" in Vadodara, India.
The color palette I use is inspired by the vibrancy and diversity of folk culture and festivities of Western India. And although my culture is a driving inspiration behind my work, it hasn't stopped me from being inquisitive and exploring other cultures. The current theme of work "The shift" presents simple objects like moon in a metaphorical way to allow different and divergent interpretations by the audience which experiences it. I explore emotions by using bright colors that is seen throughout my work. The dream like quality in my paintings is explored in blue. I refrained from using facial characteristics so as to not obstruct the audience's imagination.
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Play
Water colour on paper cutout
33'' x 22''
2011
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 Aaliyah Gupta
Web: www.aaliyahgupta.net
My latest work is about movement and density, growth and decay, symbiosis and co-existence. Walking in the forests here in the Northwest, I am struck by the sheer mass of things growing. Entangled, on top of each other, inside tree trunks, under the spongy carpet of leaves. Moss on fallen trees, fungi in crevices, shoots sprouting out of nurse logs, skeletal remains of burnt trees. And water everywhere. Beaded droplets on leaves, rivulets on ferns, cascades from the sky, vortexes on the coastline. These paintings are about nature and about life. The dark mystery of things as they grow and decay. The upheavals, natural and political, that impact our day to day existence. The vortexes that we find ourselves in.
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Lost in the Forest #3
Acrylic on duralar
20.75 x 20.75
2012
$400
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 Mansoora Hassan
Web: www.mansoorahassan.com
Modern life must have room for both faith and modernity, thereby enriching all.
My mixed media and video works serve as a conduit to stimulate a response and engage in positive dialogue and are influenced by Sufi thought - I have traveled Worldwide seeking the common thread of spirituality that binds us. |
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Sema series
56x43
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 Mumtaz Hussain
Web: www.mumtazart.com
Strangely, even as a canvas artist, I have never thought 'stills'. I could never capture a moment as an immovable element in time, without an evolving context. I have always believed that whatever my work, it stemmed from the moving image. Whether it is an attempt at expressing my artistic world view through calligraphy or another visual, it has always been motivated by a stream of images, of which one 'stills' the essence of the expressive moment as I reproduce it on canvas or three dimension. |
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 Reeta Gidwani-Karmarkar
The discovery of perspective, and ways to distort it, came to me in my early years at the Accademia di belle Arti in Rome, and I've never looked back. Through the years I've worked with architects, and learned to play with perspective. Tricking the eye into lengthening, shortening, deepening, and creating space that really isn't there. Thus, no painting is committed to only one orientation. I do this with, colors, light, darkness, and even painterly strokes against hard edge geometry, and frequently outside the rectangle. I like to work large and have painted, several murals, both in Europe and the US. However, the paintings I have in the Museum of Contemporary art in Madrid and the Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela are in a smaller format on canvas. Size often directs the perspective in my work. |
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 Kulvinder Kaur Dhew
Web: www.kulvinderkaurdhew.
blogspot.com
This body of work concerns my pre-occupation with the themes of creation from a mythological and Darwinian perspective. The contrast between contemporary science issues and the 'ancient' intrigues me. I allude to a conceptual connection to film by using a flat, glossy, panoramic format (aluminium, plexiglass) in the final artifact. A back and forth between painting, film and collage promote a richness in the narrative and aesthetics of the work. |
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Taffy diode
Digital archival image on aluminium
4 x 20 ins
$900
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 Firoz Mahmud
Web: www.firozmahmud.com
I was born and brought up in Khulna and Dhaka , Bangladesh. After studying primarily from Dhaka University, I moved to Amsterdam at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten for two years under fellowship . After that, I moved to Japan and expanded my artistic career while I did my PhD on fine arts from Tokyo University of the arts until 2010. I moved to USA at the beginning of 2011 where I still have been pursuing my artistic career. In last ten years I lived six different countries including Bangladesh, USA, Japan, Netherlands, UAE and Italy for artist in residency and art projects.
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 Parul Mehra
Parul is a Textile Designer by profession. She was educated at NIFT, New Delhi and at FIT, New York and has worked in the fashion industry for several years with companies like Coach, Ralph Lauren, Bloomingdales and Interface. She is an award winning designer and her work has been showcased all over the US, Europe and India. She has mastered the techniques of woven textiles, hand printing and embroidery. |
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Work title 1: Coastal retreat
Medium: Digital photograph
Dimensions: 16x 20 in
Price: $1500
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 Alakananda Mukerji
I am Alakananda Mukerji, and I grew up on the River Ganges. I have long since left the narrow streets of Benaras where life is awash in a flood of color and a constant stream of souls. Yet however so far I may find myself from those ancient riverbanks, my memory, my art, and indeed my very being -- these are forever caught up in the notion of endless, sacred flow.
People and faces, the surge of sounds, the unfathomably old commingling with the untarnishedly new -- all the rhythms and rhymes of India: this is the wellspring of who I am. I flow from this source, but I have become the river - changing, evolving, flowing. And what flows from me, my painting, it is often a conversation between the me that was and the me that is becoming. Memories, media, materials - bits of canvas, pieces of the past - anything I can get hold of: this is my art. I am the medium. I am the flow. |
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REMEMBRANCE
Water Color on the Paper
20 x 30
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 Veru Narula
Web: www.verunarula.com
"I paint to explore the power of hands, the destruction of the ego, and the beauty of the mind, in order to reveal the light of a universal soul." - Veru Narula
I was trained more technically in representational oil painting, but I also have an engineering degree. My experience ranges from academic training at the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University. I have also taken contemporary coursework at the Museum of Modern Art, and completed an Executive MBA at Columbia university. In my youth, I learned to paint from both my parents, who were artists, as well as individually from a guru in India. My experiences in both India and the US have formed a global mix of institutional and technical outlook on aesthetics and ideas.
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Prostrate in Prayer
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 George Oommen
Web: www.goommen.com
Born in Munnar, Kerala, India, and educated in India, Mexico, and the United States, George Oommen continues to derive artistic inspiration from the lush green landscapes of his homeland. Every winter, Oommen visits Mankotta, a small island in the inland waters of Kerala in southwestern India, ten miles from Oommen's ancestral home. The weeks spent there fuel his painting year round.
What follows is a series of questions from Ebrahim Alkazi and answers by Oommen about his work. The conversation took place over a series of days but reflects a lifetime of thinking about the meaning of his art. |
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Kanjeevaram Series 27
Acrylic on canvas
36x36
2012
$8000
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 Avani Patel
Web: www.avanirpatel.com
Music evokes the body to respond to a rhythm and become an embodiment of exuberance, expression and movement. My idea of painting is a rhythmic 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, harmonious elements, and abstract figures which form patterns on my canvases.
My paintings invite the viewer to wander through a universe of color and pattern in motion - a world of energy in music manifested in visual form. In the small universe I altered and accepted life of being, from everyday appreciation that gets created on canvas or in my drawings.
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4 Blue Ocean
Acrylic
14x18
2011
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 Antonio Puri
My expression of the self continuously evolves in an effort to challenge perceptions and deconstruct identifying labels used by others. Constructs of different aspects of the self are limited; is my existence a microcosm within the universe or do I make art that transcends individuality to connect with Oneness? Are all descriptions of who I am truly encompassing? My art comes from personal expression. It is multilayered and complex with veneers, glazes, varnishes of emotions, transgressions, singularity, obsession, and enigma. I am interested in comparing connections between my eastern roots and my western experiences. I embrace the possibility that we can exist in a world free from labels. |
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Stacked
Mixed media on canvas
18 x 24 x 24 in |
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 Nirmal Raja
The ephemeral nature of experience and memory is an area of rich possibilities in my work. By using the images of hands and combining them with hand drawn graphite lines, I connect the corporeal and the subliminal. The subtle shimmer of the graphite lines and the small size of the prints, invite the viewer to step close, for a more intimate look. Sometimes the drawings may allude to music and rhythm and sometimes a mental cartography. In some work, there may be images from the past, modified in order to speak to the present. |
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Touch I
Photopolymer prints and with graphite drawings
8"X8"
Framed: 12"X14"
2012
$275
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 Sangeeta Reddy
Life cycles have a way of re-occurring. Only, they never return in perfect circles, but in wobbly, misshapen ellipses, unexpectedly, unpredictably, and yet with a certain rhythm. The shape has always been present in my work from the earliest tentative explorations into abstract shapes.
Monotypes are everything that is direct, spontaneous, unexamined, unbidden, and confident, gushing on their own, in that moment when creating is merely a channel for something beyond the conscious. The collage is everything the monotype is not: thoughtful, considered and meandering; it is what seeps quietly beneath the surface, conscious and aware. But above all, it is the thinnest of skins - fragile, absorbent and tenacious.
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Ellipse #26
Mixed media collage on monotype on paper
22hx30w
2011
$2,400
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 Tara Sabharwal
Web: www.tarasabharwal.com
My paintings are a collection of thoughts and remembered moments from a journey of outward and inner explorations.
Time fascinates me. As I spontaneously apply marks and colors, abandoning my conscious mind's need for logic and sequence, I attempt to tap into a deeper, submerged order and tune into time's simultaneous openness. The Past embraces the experiences, environments and times I have lived in. It holds my debt to mentors and to the art traditions I have inherited and adopted. The Present is always at hand, pulsating with impressions and the excitement of experimentation.
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4 Morning Rain
Etching
6'5 X 6
2012
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 Ela Shah
I have been working on a new body of work that uses video as a new language but continues to explore my interests in age - old issues. I explore themes including home, globalization, personal and cultural identity. My new sculpture series is called "Renovations" and it includes videos embedded within the sculpture. The short videos (about 1 minute) play in a loop inside the burnt wood wall sculptures with 7" or 5" portable DVD players (hidden in the design). The videos are scenes I have shot on my travels abroad including India and animations using some of my own paintings and sculptures.
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Title: Playing hooky
Medium: Digital print on aluminum
Dimension: 8" x 12"
Year: 2011
Price: $650
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 Md Tokon
Web: www.mdtokon.com
Md Tokon is in love with color and in love with the cities he grew up in. He learnt the soil layers from his childhood and captured the style when his mom used to take care of their soil house wall. His destination is unknown. But he is ready to walk on his land as long as he is not tired. Born in Jhenidah, Bangladesh, he grew up in a neighborhood not known for supporting artistic endeavors. But with the support of his family, he soon realized his dream. As a teenager he was inspired to pursue a career as an artist. When he was about 10 he made his first real painting. City life, the surrounding atmosphere and social structure have made a great impact on him. Through out the canvas he has been deeply influenced by layer of soil, light, surface, music, harmony and invention, monochrome and minimalism... |
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Soil & Surface
Acrylic on Canvas
48x48
2012
$6000
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