Erasing Borders 2010 Yeah!

131. Erasing Borders-2010‏, Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora, Summit NJ, April 2 – June 4/10

Exhibition Curated by Vijay Kumar
Venue:
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901 USA
Website: www.artcenternj.org

Exhibition dates: April 2 – June 4, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 9, 6-8pm

IAAC Contact:
Amina B Ahmed – Director of Exhibitions
Website: www.iaac.us

Description of Exhibition
The Indo-American Arts Council’s 7th Annual ‘Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian art of the Diaspora’ features work by 25 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent.

This group of multinational and intergenerational artists, chosen by Vijay Kumar, reflects a broad range of life experiences and aesthetic values. The artists interpret diverse subject matter—figurative, abstract and conceptual—in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and installation. The resulting works often meld Indian and Western ideas about color, form and subject.

Twenty million people of Indian origin shifted countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. Implicit in the term Diaspora are the concepts of change and adaptation. Cultural dislocation can produce unexpected and powerful results. Subject matter is often drawn from the country of origin, while many of the artistic decisions and political concerns come from the artists’ newfound situations.

Artists of the South Asian Diaspora are working to make themselves heard in an art world that is at once more competitive and more receptive to non-Western art than ever before.

This exhibition seeks to transcend the borders that confine and control preconceived definitions of Indian and Western art.

The exhibition features work by Jeet Aulakh, Samanta Batra Mehta, Nandini Chirimar, Ruby Chishti, Pritika Chowdhry, Neil Chowdhury, Erum Chughtai, Anujan Ezhikode, Reeta Gidwani- Karmarkar, Nidhi Jalan, Shaurya Kumar, Haresh Lalvani, Obaidullah Mamoon, Chetan Mangat, Urmila Mohan, Avani Patel, Roy-Bari Pinku, Talha Rathore, Rasika Reddy, Satyakam Saha, Sheena Sood, Anjali Srinivasan, Roshani Thakore, and Yetish Yetish.
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