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| About the Exhibition |
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| Call for Submissions 2015 |
ERASING BORDERS 2015 |
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| This Exhibitions is Free and Open to the Public
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 Alka Dalal
website: www.AlkasUniqueArt.com Art is that spark which ignites my inner creation. It is that divine experience which I feel while creating each art piece. I envision a painting in almost everything that I observe. Adding my thoughts, feelings to it with vibrant colors and surfaces I create my unique art work. I think of something ordinary and come up with something special. The whole process to me is thought provoking. |
Title: Going Green |
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 Alka Mukerji
Education MA, SUNY, New Paltz, NY, USA MFA, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India B.F.A, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Ph.D. in Art History, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Higher Studies of Art, Greek Ministry of Education Scholarship, Athens, Greece |
Title: The Red Bridge |
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 Anna Bradfield
website: annabradfield.com I am a fine art painter who uses found object collage to bring new life to the work as well as to the discarded objects. My work explores reclaiming and recasting the beauty inherent in found objects by melding them with personal stories through my blend of painting, collage and textile. This fresh combination of styles echoes the pluralism of my multicultural background. Half Indian and half English, I have an appreciation for the richness of diversity and detail |
Title: Crop Circle |
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 Anujan Ezhikode
website: Anujanezhikode.com My earliest influences were the elaborate temple arts and colorful folk and religious rituals of Kerala, India. An interest in visual arts led me to enter the theater arts program at the Kerala Kalamandalam. This rich artistic lineage of sound and color still fuels my work. I use bubble imagery as a metaphor for the invisible barrier that separates us from understanding the past. This bubble layer often resembles the surfaces created by rice paste used in the ritual and theater arts of India. My figures evoke those distant memories, which constantly resurface to be confronted and rediscovered. |
Title: Bubbles |
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 Aparajita Sen
website: www.senjita.com As an artist, my background and rich influences of different cultures has steered me to explore the concept of symbolism and imagery, the mythical implications in various cultures have always intrigued me. While merging traditional symbols and thoughts and presenting those in a contemporary style, I also enjoy capturing the effects of the unification of visual ideas or subject matter and evoke a sense of mystery in my work. I get these effects with brilliant and vibrant colors. My style is mostly abstract and I also take delight in exploring the compositional possibilities in creating abstractions from everyday life. Working with oils and mixed media are most fulfilling to me. |
Title: Into the Storm |
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 Arun Prem website: www.oilpaintingsofINDIA.com I am a fine art painter who uses found object collage to bring new life to the work as well as to the discarded objects. My work explores reclaiming and recasting the beauty inherent in found objects by melding them with personal stories through my blend of painting, collage and textile. This fresh combination of styles echoes the pluralism of my multicultural background. |
Title: Hereafters Inc |
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Bivas Chaudhuri
website: registry.bricartsmedia.org 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: Implosion |
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 Delna Dastur
website: www.delnadastur.com As an artist, my background and rich influences of different cultures has steered me to explore the concept of symbolism and imagery, the mythical implications in various cultures have always intrigued me. While merging traditional symbols and thoughts and presenting those in a contemporary style, I also enjoy capturing the effects of the unification of visual ideas or subject matter and evoke a sense of mystery in my work. I get these effects with brilliant and vibrant colors. My style is mostly abstract and I also take delight in exploring the compositional possibilities in creating abstractions from everyday life. Working with oils and mixed media are most fulfilling to me. |
Title: Infiltration |
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 Gautam Raowebsite: www.gautamrao.net Names are an inherent part of who we are. I’ve long had an obsession with Indian names. Since I was a child, I’ve heard my name pronounced (and spelled) in infinite ways- a common experience for many Indians in America. In this series: Indians, Alphabetically my goal is to celebrate the variety and power of Indian names. My work focuses on the intersection of art and design, of digital and analog mediums. This series relies on vector drawing and Bézier curves to bring detail and specificity to illustrations. Each illustration is accompanied by original typography. The font was designed specifically for this piece using Glyphs software. |
Title: Alok |
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 George Oommenwebsite: 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. |
Title: Kerala screened 35 |
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 Indrani Nayar Gall
website: indraninayargall.com Since 2004 I have been examining issues on migration, identity, loss, memory and displacement. While the core concept remains the same, the syntax of how I connect with them, pull them apart and reuse them to create the narratives, have changed over the years and so has changed my choice of media and material. Although my primary field is printmaking My recent projects examine the two quintessential human rights issues – right to freedom and dignity. For the past few years I have been tracing the absence of these fundamental rights especially related to women. They map displacement and continued violence against young girls and women within the extremely paternalistic authoritarian core of religions in India and other countries. The body of work I am currently working on maps those waves of change that are disrupting the extreme orthodox religious machine, and transforming these societies. |
Title: From Square I
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 MD Tokon
website: www.mdtokon.com A prolific painter, Md Tokon started to paint when he was very young in his native Bangladesh and continues to produce remarkable paintings in New York City. One can easily detect a mature and skillful painter by the way he navigates space and handles the medium. The physicality and immediacy of his paintings are inspired moments of deep reflection; they transport the viewer to a place neither here nor there, a timeless place beyond the horizon. Md Tokon recent abstractions are predicated on color, dark, light and space. The work he produce shares similarities with the lyrics of Bob Dylan & Rabindranath Tagore, which are simple, pure, and organic. The results are highly emotional, energetic & sensational. 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. |
Title: Shadows are falling
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 Mumtaz Hussain 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:Chrysler |
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 Nachiketa Amin website: www.nachiketa-amin.com Art to me, is the expression of creation, and of being in the moment. Most of my art is instantaneous expression of what I feel on a subject of constructs and conflicts that arise in the self and society. I use various mediums to communicate an emotion that I feel or the idea of a piece in that moment. The medium and the feeling might create an appearance of a style, but I do not consciously use or adhere to any specific style of art, and that in itself is my style. The style of no style, or the style of all styles. My art is an exploration of cerebral space and time, by the way of intuitions and emotions. Through art I express my instinctual reactions to the people, issues, and situations that I encounter in the world outside of me. I express that angst or appreciation that I feel on a chosen surface through painting, installations, sculpture, design, photography, and filmmaking, while subconsciously providing solutions to personal and social problems. |
Title: Your Skin - 2 |
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 Nandita Raman
website: www.nanditaraman.com In my ongoing work, I’m exploring the idea of ‘Utopia’ and the irresistible longing for an ideal place. Instead of a near-perfect order of society envisioned by a single individual in a position of intellectual or political power, is it possible to think of the utopian place as an organic, breathing structure that embraces multiple imagination and constant change? We often bestow meaningful attention on systems outside of us: political, social, and ideological. But structures exist within us too: prejudices, judgments, a desire for organization. A Reverent Commemoration of Sequence of Heroic Acts uses the motif of statues in public spaces to examine the impulse of placing responsibility of our lives on someone else-shepard, guru or political leader. Carving in metal is a literal way of inscribing an image in history, serving as a tool for propaganda and selective memorialization. |
Title: 1 |
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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 an d n on objective serves as a matrix between social an d cultural spaces. |
Title: Compassion
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 Padmini Mongia
website: mongiahere.wordpress.com I began painting seriously about 14 years ago, and after many years as a literary scholar and teacher (identities I continue to inhabit). Although my abstract works are not recognizably “Indian,” I often work with Indian materials, such as handmade paper, dry indigo (neel), and natural colors. The texture and living quality of the paper is something I love, so I retain and even enhance traces of the natural materials used in the paper. I approach canvas in a similar way, so I don’t always stretch it before I paint and often paint on raw, untreated canvas as in the large painting here. My works begin with an intuitive impulse to examine and explore color, surface, scale, and texture to create an image. I may be drawn to the thickness of the paper, the weave of canvas, or the glow of a particular color. |
 Title: I Said So. |
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 Parul Mehra 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. |
Title: Love |
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| Radhika Mathews
website: www.radhikamathews.com My current work arises out of very personal experiences and involves using saris and other Indian-origin cloth as collage, combined with acrylic painting. I explore and connect with my family history and personal experiences through this work of trying to combine a sense of the modern and western life I have experienced with the traditional South Indian life I have witnessed and imagined. The sari material used in the work comes from a collection of my mother’s saris that were given to me by my father a few years ago. |
Title: By The Tree |
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 Rahul Mehra website: www.delnadastur.com Rahul was born in New Delhi and educated in Zambia, India, the UK and the US. Art has always been his passion since early years and Rahul is enamored by the vibrancy of colors and pigments that abound from the Indian subcontinent. The reds and vermilions juxtaposed between the ochre and the yellow with the blue, his works are deeply connected to themes found in Indian mythology and the social milieu of the subcontinent. His interest lies in Contemporary Indian Modern Art with themes from the wide canvas of Indian mythology, history and also the art of storytelling through classical dance forms of the subcontinent and also through modern media of advertising and communication. |
Title: Sarvottam Quality Television |
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 Reet Das
I see the world as being flat, a pre-Magellan’s point of view. I feel in some way that multiple experiences, stories, relationships, etc., all exist and continue to evolve on a flat plane. As a child, I was raised on a steady diet of animal filled stories, events and histories that included Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories” |
Title: Her Twisted Tail (triptych) |
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 Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar 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. I found the perspectives used by 14th century painters fascinating – an epiphany for me! Since then my work has explored different angles, as well as plains of perspective and false perspectives…narrowing and expanding space with colour and mixture of rigid hard-edge plus rough painterly strokes. It intrigues me to take architectural designs and abstract them. It is gratifying to be shown and get commissions; but not me, the challenge is in freeing myself further out of rectangular boundries, and challenging the viewer to do the same. |
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Sankrant |
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 Renuka Khanna
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. I want to share my fluid artistic impressions with viewers with the hope they, in turn, have uniquely personal interpretations of my work. |
Title: # 01 |
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 Rochana Dubey
website: www.rochanadubey.com “My experiments on canvas have been explorations of my abilities, and attempts at understanding nuances of the rapidly changing social landscape in urban India. Ideals and values instilled during childhood quickly dissolved into a confused youth as my perceptions of life and relationships underwent a dramatic metamorphosis. Women became the dominating protagonists in my stories – bold, sensitive and thought provoking. In their tough and gritty yet sensuous and beautiful avatars, they tread the fine line between tradition and modern. With my new series, “Discoveries”, the attention turns inwards to reflect on a woman’s state of mind in different life-scenarios. I am a self-taught artist, an autodidact, with a generous endowment of artistic genes. An early recognition of inherent talent generated interest, but traditional academic compulsions took me through college and a bachelor’s degree in literature. |
Title: Shakti |
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 Sana Nandakarni
“To me art is not defined by countless paint brushes and paints. To me, it is a passion waiting to be excellently pursued. For me, art is a way for me to not only express my imagination, but also my talent, care, and appreciation towards my community. I had sparked an interest in art, which I predict, shall last a lifetime. The numerous accomplishments that I have achieved as an artist are as the “myriad grains of sand on a beach” (at least that is what it seems like) and my goals as an aspiring artist are high enough to reach the stars, generous enough to remain on earth. To me art is a way for me to be me. |
Title : Unique |
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 Sejal Krishnan
I see pattern and design in everything. From the fiery sunsets to the simple sprawling meadows. In a simple letter form to the tall buildings. Every visual is a painting. Translated by me in the form of a splash and a drop. Tiny gold specks which bid farewell in the inky darkness of the midnight sky to the reflections of light which dance and illuminate the many still waters. My thoughts, my perceptions, my experiences have been my journey. My artwork has been my expression. “I took the road less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” |
Title: Dancing reflections |
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 Shanthi Chandrasekar
website: www.shanthic.com My deep interest in cosmology led to this series of drawings. These pieces are an exploration into concepts that range from the microcosm to the macrocosm, from quantum mechanics to relativity and from singularity to infinity. Such dichotomies are part of a whole and it is the limitations of our perception that create borders, separating and categorizing them. Through these drawings I am striving to clear these artificial borders and level with these “fuzzy areas” in an effort to better understand how these principles relate. |
Title: Building Blocks |
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 Sunil Garg
website: 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 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: Pray/Think (Henna & Espionage) |
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 Tara Sabharwal
website: 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 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, |
Title: Two homes two lives
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 Tarik Currimbhoy
Website: 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. The stone sculptures can be placed either indoors or outdoors. I encourage people to interact with the stone by touching and feeling the hand chiseling as well as by observing the play of light and shadow. |
Title: Twist |
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 Tulika Ladsariya
website: tulika.ladsariya.com Mumbai-born, Chicago-based artist, Tulika Ladsariya has been exploring the issues of labor, language and literacy. Tulika’s paintings are a social commentary on the division of society through the iconography of labor. Photographs of figures at work- lifting, pulling, pushing, heaving- form the starting point. Her paintings showcase slum-dwelling construction workers perched on bamboo-encased skyscrapers, men carting heavy burdens on flimsy carts, illiterate booksellers and homeless brick workers. They form the metaphors and visual puns of the dichotomy of India. Her sculptures are derived from familiar construction materials procured from around her surroundings. Bricks, lumber, plaster and bright house paint recur in her oeuvre. Tulika’s didactic narrative and convergence of different artistic styles- are at once rooted in the everyday and surreal. Her vision translates into something that is painfully honest yet her use of color, texture and line give us hope. And this is what makes her work truly unique. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and India. |
Title: Graceful burden
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 Veru Narula Contemporary artist with focus on oil paintings with contemporary mixed media. B. 1981, New York “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 Veru Narula creats paintings in reaction to the events and ideas of an ever converging global landscape. Much like an author, he uses a visual plotline for subject matter that tells a story. His paintings are visual representations that draw from international conflicts, the intersection of technology in daily life, the role of religious tension and human rights in politics, and the progress of clean tech and alternative energy. In his artistic process, he utilizes the juxtaposition of imagery and discrete ideas to create new synergy as well as contribute to the visual culture. |
Title: #4 -- “Worship” |
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 Viraj Mithani
Viraj Mithani’s extensive and diverse practice in Painting and Drawing, Printmaking and Visual Communication has contributed to his assorted methods of image making. His work revolves around various distinct cultures and traditions around the world. His paintings focus on cultures and traditions that are not only defined by regional geography and ethnicities, but also concentrating on the pre-existing and existing cultures of the art world itself. Over the years we have seen such a drastic shift with innumerable movements and styles defining art. His work is layered with multiple levels of meanings that create a conversation relating to the contextual information of the formal aesthetics like form, line, color and representation, but also one of the integral aspects of his work is a combination of critique and response to these existing norms and cultures that prevail, within a society and in relation to the art context. |
Title: Untitled I |
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| 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. | |
| The Indo-American Arts Council is a 501 3 not-for-profit secular arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting, showcasing and building an awareness of artists of Indian origin in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts and folk arts. For information please visit | |