Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.

IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2014

Participating Artists

Niamul Bari Web: bariart.carbonmade.com 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.		Title: Bari_Niamul_08 Medium : mixed media on canvas Dimension: 5x5 inches Year: 2012 Price: $350
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Shanthi Chandrasekar Web: www.shanthic.com This series, Journeys, is an ongoing search for meaning in my spiritual journey from the microcosm to the macrocosm. My focus has been on the journeys we make where there are no visible borders. These boundaries are in our minds and can be erased only when we put our differences past us and feel the interconnectedness. Using symbols, I have been trying to understand concepts that are simple yet profound.		Title: Phenomena-2 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimension: 26x28 in Year: 2013 Price: $1,800
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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.		Title: Spider, Bercelona Medium: Acrylic Dimension: 24”x24” Year: 2013 Price: 6000
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Bushra Chaudry Web: www.bushrachaudry .womanmade.net In my everyday life, my escape is in the creative power of art. I am primarily a visual person and am always observing images and ideas which have yet to take form. That was the case for my new series of images to memorialize the changing events to the world geography. My work has always been a mirror of my culture in which I live and through my work, I express my joy, pain, desire and triumphs. As I try to come to terms with the unspeakable events of the existing world, my paintings reflect my inner sense of hope and despair.		Title: All Walls... No Bridges - II Medium: Mixed Media Painting on Wood Dimension: 24” x 24” Year: 2012 Price: $2500
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Nandini Chirimar Web: nandinibaglachirimar.com Everyday life is the foundation of my work. I constantly obeserve and think about myself, my surroundings and the traditions that shape my actions. I draw from personal history, relationships, places I have lived in, maps and my different roles as an Indian woman/mother living in America. Through my work I also seek to document current culture and societal norms that we exist within. Researching everyday objects for their function in our life, and their social significance, is part of my process. These include household objects, things in drawers, shelves, rooms and traditional and non-traditional objects. I research their physical characteristics and what happens when they are taken out of context and repeated or combined. As an example, threads used in Indian ceremonies are tied together using multiples of knots, or a drawing becomes a collection of thousands of minute seeds, spices, grains etc. Out of context, these objets acquire a new existence and almost abstract identity – yet seeing them repeated forces one to become aware of and question their overwhelming importance in our lives.		Title: My relationship with red Medium: tching, aquatint, pencil, pen and gold leaf on kozo paper, mounted on Rives Tan paper Dimension: 12x8.5” Year: 2013 Price: $500
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Tarik Currimbhoy Web: www.currimbhoy.net Sana Stone steps back into the past to create modern hand-chiseled stone sculptures. There is an intriguing contradiction to stone. It is the most solid and permanent material and yet it can be carved into a surface as delicate as lace. My work is about light and shadow created by solids and voids, all hand-chiseled. The stone is held together by compression, under the forces of gravity. This is the direction of my sculpture. The stone pieces are notched together and are modular, thereby allowing them to be transported easily. They come to the site like a "lego set" with numbered parts and fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.		Title: Circle Medium: Marble Dimension: 2-0" x 4" x 2 1/2" Year: 2011 Price: $5,000
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Reet Das Web: www.reetdas.com 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.		Title: The Legend of Savitri Medium: Maritime map, Gouache, Acrylic, Graphite, on Paper & Wood panel Dimension: 30” x 20” Year: 2013 Price: $4,500
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Delna Dastur Web: www.delnadastur.com Over the years as I developed as an artist, I came to the realization that the process of making a piece of art intrigues me as much as its subject matter. I am never satisfied with using one medium exclusively and always attempt to combine several. I like the work to be complex, to be multi-layered. I usually begin by carefully choosing a paint color, keeping it liquid enough to be poured and manipulated over the surface of the canvas. This is followed by stamping. I use wooden textile blocks from India in combination with rubber stamps. Next comes the building up of textures. I rake through gels, pastes and clear gessoes using hardware implements and create patterns with templates. Recently I’ve added yet another layer – transfers.		Title: All that Glitters is not Gold Medium: Mixed Media Dimension: 30” x 40” Year: 2013 Price: $3,750
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Anujan Ezhikode Web: www.anujanezhikode.com I am exploring time and memory through my art. For me, all visual information, whether from nature, traditional rituals, or contemporary objects, is all stimuli. In contemporary practice you strive not to isolate but to integrate the abundant influences that are coming into your work. This accumulation slowly evolves into shapes and images. Your work is a response to this convergence. Time passes; time stands still, these remnants all dissolve into one. In my art, medium and imagery forge the connection of time and memory.		Title: Illumination Medium: Acrylic, pen, pencil on canvas Dimension: 46 x 90 Year: 2013 Price: $3,000
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Mustafa Faruki eMail: Mustafa@theLab-lab.com Mustafa Faruki is the founder and creative director of theLab-lab, a Brooklyn-based design practice dedicated to experimenting with the agents of desire, humor, irony, memory, piss, shit, hand-jobs and others in the making of high-quality architectural design for a wide range of (predominantly imaginary) clients. He has studied History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and Architectural Design at Columbia University.		Title: BESPOKE GLORY HOLE No. 4 Medium:Archival print (on Arches Watercolor) with stamped ink & transfer type Dimension: 80 X 50 “ Year: 2012 Price: $1000
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Sunil Garg Web: www.sunilgarg3d.com I am an experimental and experiential artist. I amalgamate my scientific and technical experiences, my involvement with environmental and waste management issues, and musical and art and performance experiences in my art work. I employ lightweight materials such as wire mesh, expandable foam, discarded plastic bags, and packaging materials in interaction with light and air currents to create work that invites the viewer to reconsider orthodoxy about devotion, duplication, reproduction, mass, gravity, optics, contours, waste, myth, religion, social symbols, sound, smell, environment and things and consumerism.		Title: GARG_01_Creation_Myth Medium: Expandable foam castings, foam sheet, thermoplastic glue, nylon string Dimension: 24 x 12 x 9 inches Year: 2012 Price: $1,000
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Reeta Gidwani Karmakar 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.		Title: Medium: Acrylic Dimension: 30x60 Year: 2014 Price: $200.00
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Mansoora Hassan Web: www.mansoorahassan.com Mansoora Hassan, a multi-media artist who lives and works in both the West and the East, is fully at-home within traditional Islam and liberal, secular societies. Perhaps now more than ever, in our increasingly dissonant world, art dialogue is a crucial platform for intercultural exchange - to overcome polarization and promote a sense of shared humanity.		Title: The Fallen-01 Medium: Photograph Dimension: Year: Price: 2012
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Mumtaz Hussain eMail: mumtazhussain1919@gmail.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. Essentially, the graduation from painting to film and sculpture has just been a logical and progressive extension of my work. I think I matured into film, just as a walk matures into the ability to run. My training as an artist has served my endeavor as a filmmaker immensely – it has offered me the scope to unravel the various elements of a single frame into the many and third dimension that comprise it.		Title: Adam's Rib Medium: Water Color and Gauche, Dimension: 3x5 inch Year: 2013 Price: $1500
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Smrita Jain Web: www.surmritgallery.com Having done, 3 years of undergraduate study in Political Science, Smrita chose a career where her inner passion of drawing and creative thinking came together in one profession - Design. Smrita completed her second undergrad - B.A. in Graphic Design from Apeejay Institute of Design, New Delhi, India. Along with her studies, she worked with an advertising and design agency in New Delhi for a year. Inspired by her father’s lessons “Keep learning and never stop” she joined Pratt Institute, New York for pursuing MS in Communications Design and Photography. During her years in Pratt, she worked with many design professionals in New York and gained experience in typography, environmental signage and branding. She is a multi-faceted artist and her work includes photography, painting, and writing.		Title: Durga_10 armed godess Medium: Photographic Print Dimension: 11X17 Year: 2012 Price: $875
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Renuka Khanna eMail: khanna.renuka@gmail.com I don’t set myself out to produce art focused on any one singular subject. The subject matter of my work is an ever-fluid understanding of the visual world around me; interpretations of what I see, feel and experience. A pen or pencil in hand, I am always drawing and sketching; most never see the light of day while others are built upon many times over as they develop into deeper expressive images as my Art. But these expressions, like the underlying subject matter, are not singular – at various times, I’ve fallen in love with the techniques used by Renaissance and Medieval artisans (painters, draftsmen, crafters and engravers), Buddhist cave painters in India and more modern Aboriginal artists in Australia.		Title: Portrait 4 (Red Color from Portrait Series) Medium: Etching & Chine Colle with Kozo Paper Dimension: 6” x 9” Year: 2012 Price: $450 for a Pair Image # 93 & # 95
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Chandrika Marla Web: www.chandrikamarla.com My work explores female identity and the place of women in society. I am inspired by women, their relationships with others, and with their own selves. I was a fashion designer for many years and as an artist I still express my ideas through depictions of the female torso. The torso itself is suggestive of the fragmented lives that women lead despite their desire to have it all. In each painting, I build multiple layers of paint - scraping, scratching and reapplying to resolve the negative space that surrounds my protagonists. The lines are blurred, and I sometimes add paper or fabric to help resolve the shapes. I have always been drawn to Matisse, who said, “What interested me in painting was a clarification of my ideas.”		Title: Grey llusion Medium: acrylic and oil pastel on canvas Dimension: 30 x 30” Year: 2012 Price: $1840
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Parul Mehra eMail: parulmehra@yahoo.co.uk Having worked in the fashion industry for so long, Parul developed a deep passion for photography. Her methods and selections of color and shades take reflection from the rendition of color through light and its exposure that creates subliminal effects only seized at an instant. She is a Textile Designer by profession. She was educated at NIFT, New Delhi and at FIT, New York and has worked 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. She has worked with the likes of Bruce Mau, Mark Pollack and Rachel Doriss. Her inspirations have come from the Indian and French classic motifs harmonized with western themes.		Title: Work is play Medium: Digital Photograph, Dimension: 16” x 20” Year: 2013 Price: $1,500
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Rahul Mehra eMail: mehrarahul@hotmail.com “Advertising in the Indian context means different things to different people. Icons of industry and business have product placement a necessity. But some have transcended in such a wide manner from one generation to the next that they almost seem an essential part of our daily lives. My early work in advertising and copy writing with LINTAS and Mudra Communications in New Delhi brought me in sync with some of these seemingly everlasting images. We live and breathe the messages they impart and look at them through our inner mind with such regularity that it has left an unshakeable imprint on our psyche.		Title: Sarvottam Quality Advertising Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimension: 48” x 36” Year: 2013 Price: $6,000
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Alka Mukerji eMail: alka.mukerji@gmail.com I am Alkananda 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.		Title: Hier Medium: Acrylic Dimension: 22x40 Year: 2013 Price:
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Nipun Manda My work is a contemporary statement through the perception on Inner space and Outer space juxtaposing with time and space of life experience, I incorporate visual, emotional and psychological impressions of urban tension, raw emotions and harsh realities tempered with gentle optimism and beauty seeking the combination of objective and nonobjective serves as a matrix between social and cultural spaces. The space we live in on a day-to-day basis, most of us are so caught up living in this world as it is that we don't have much time or energy to focus on how the world might become better and For many - probably most - people, the reality of those choices are not usually acknowledged consciously, at least not on a daily basis. Such people live according to habit, and exist within choices given to them through mainstream media and educational systems, economic necessity, and immediate need satisfaction.		Title: Transition of Hope Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimension: 50x38 Year: 2013 Price: $5000
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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. The idea is to interpret the content of the music and express it via visual images; to create an environment of joy and passion conveying a feeling of dance and festivity while using the psyche’s imagination. As a self taught artist, my art education was accomplished through close observation of the surroundings, study of artworks, and spending time with artists and around artwork where possible.		Title: Lifeto Be Medium: Acrylic Dimension: 5x5ft Year: 2012 Price: $12000
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Arun Prem Web: www.oilpaintingsofINDIA.com Many of my paintings depict people and places. I am most interested in representing the extraordinary in ordinary situations. I often use photographs from my archives or those taken by friends and acquaintances for inspiration. Photography helps me understand an object’s relation with light by placing everything in two dimensions. It also gives me the flexibility to work at home at random hours. Recently I have worked exclusively with oil paints. Oils work well with expressing skin tone and provide an aesthetic that is compatible with my style. I begin each project with a rough drawing followed by several coats of paint. Oils provide me with a practical medium that works with my schedule which involves frequent interruptions due to other work and commitments. I love warm colors; colors are prominent in my art and often comprise the themes. I try and create figurative elements and universal themes that establish a rapport with the viewer and evoke an emotional response. As a self taught artist, my art education was accomplished through close observation of the surroundings, study of artworks, and spending time with artists and around artwork where possible.		Title: Angels Inc Medium: oil Dimension: 48x48in Year: 2013 Price: $4500
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Antonio Puri eMail: antoniopuri@gmail.com 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.		Title: Varna sketch 1 Medium: mixed media on paper Dimension: 18" x 24" Year: 2013 Price: $1500
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Sangeeta Reddy Web: www.sangeetareddyart.com 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.		Title: Abstract Caligraphy with Ellipse Medium:collage on canvas - (in process, minimal work remains) Dimension: 52h x 45 Year: 2013 Price: $4,200
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Amin Rehman Web: www.aminrehman.com Through my art practice, I investigate and question themes such as violence, conflict, war and peace to highlight the complexities of a global ideology in the context aggressive world capitalization. Using encaustic, acrylic and neon text, I want their obscuring quality and floating signifiers of text to highlight these hidden and obvious ongoing issues. “Other Histories” is a series of neon, vinyl, acrylic and encaustic installations based on the current and historical text and relies on my past interest in the power of language and textual expression to alter personal ideologies through language translation.		Title: Can you touch Medium: Encaustic on wood Dimension: 10”x10” Year: 2012 Price: $ 900
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Pinku Roy-Bari eMail: pinkuroy@yahoo.com Through my artworks, I express my veiw on life to the point of exposing my inner self. I begin with inquisitiveness towards natural phenomenon and a level of metamorphasis of ideas and art languages various images by painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Superimposed several layers of forms and figures create a motives and symbols play an essential part in shaping in my works. Clerly seen in, I use of embroidered textiles images and floral form and mythical references. I express a respect for the distinctness if the culture I explore. The results are painstakingly details and vibrantly hued that reveal themselves over time and reflect profoundly on the relationship between the present and the past and the richness of multicultiral identities-reform myself. The observations extends to all of life in the process, I realized that there is this particular point where me and my alter-ego stands together reflecting each other like a mirror and that is the very point where true life of a person is grasped- my self examination.		Title: Mandir 1 Medium: Mixed Media on Paper Dimension: 15x11 in Year: 2012 Price: $350
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Tara Sabharwal Web: 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 withimpressions and the excitement of experimentation. The images in my paintings stem from a my time/ reality flux but they also draw from a common collective unconscious, where dreams, memory, imagination, myth and culture overlap and co-exist. In interpreting my pictures, I invite the viewer to visit their own submerged reality, and reflect.		Title: 9-Dens-rain Medium: 3 Color plate etching Dimension: 6.5”x6” Year:2012 Price: $500
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Md Tokon Web: www.mdtokon.com Md Tokon (born 1978) is a Bangladesh born artist currently based in New York. Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon is emerging painter who has been living in New York for over Thirteen years, and has earned a significant reputation as a painter. He spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. He studied at The Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University, and moved to New York in 2001. He obtained his B.A. in Art & Communication Design at The City University of New York. Also with the help of mentors, he studied painting at Art Students League of New York in many years.		Title: Md Tokon_Forest Sunset Medium: Canvas Dimension: 48in x 48in Year: 2013 Price: $6000
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