Curating for Change: The exhibition “Environment, Health, and the Body in Traditional Paintings from Contemporary India.”
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27 Mar
2024
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Chandreyi Basu
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Image: Kamlesh Roy, "Burning with AIDS," 2007, acrylic on paper, courtesy of Ethnic Arts Foundation and David L. Szanton. Photograph courtesy of Teya Shrady.
Living painting traditions in contemporary India often go unnoticed in mainstream art curation. This fall, a small gallery on a liberal arts college campus in rural northern New York exhibited nearly fifty paintings from Mithila, Gond, Warli, and Bengal pata traditions. They have much to say about the pressing issues of our times: environmental impacts of human actions, health inequalities; and social constructions of the body. Unconventional text panels and thematic gallery talks invited viewers to engage with issues of marginalization embedded in both the artists’ lived experiences and the paintings’ content.
Free Online Public Lecture on ZOOM.
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March 27, 2024
Timing: 6:30 - 8:30 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Chandreyi Basu
Chandreyi Basu is Associate Professor at St. Lawrence University, USA, where she has taught Asian art since earning herPh.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Her scholarship focuses on the art of early historic northwest India and Pakistan, specifically patronage and iconography of Mathura sculpture.Her recent publications highlight the urban underpinnings of Gandharan narrative art and the interactions between non-human and human animals in ancient Bharhut. She recently curated an exhibit for the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence featuring nearly fifty paintings by thirty five individual Indian artists working outside mainstream contemporary art.