Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective
August 11, 2012–October 7, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 11, 3–6 pm
Curated by Jaishri Abichandani
Assistant Curator: Josheen Oberoi
@ Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, New York 11368
In celebration of our 15th anniversary, Her Stories is a retrospective look at SAWCC’s past and present, featuring the creative works of over a hundred diasporic South Asian women artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and writers, with an installation of archival photographs, publications, and ephemera. The artwork selected for this exhibition prioritizes decorative and identity-based concepts in order to examine the trajectory of feminist art.
Artists:
Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abichandani, Nida Abidi, Fariba Alam, Indrani Ashe, Shelly Bahl, Anjali Bhargava, Monica Jahan Bose, Marcy Chevali, Nandini Chirimar, Ruby Chishti, Poulomi Desai, Mariam Ghani, Roya Farassat, Chitra Ganesh, Hayat Gul, Aisha Abid Hussain, Vandana Jain, Mona Kamal, Jesal Kapadia, Asma Kazmi, Tara Kelton, Amber Khokhar, Sarita Khurana, Swati Khurana, Pooneh Maghazehe, Annu Mathew, Samanta Batra Mehta, Jayna Mistry, Sabelo Narasimhan, Yamini Nayar, Bhanu Palam, Shruti Parekh, Amruta Patil, Kaveri Raina, Sa’dia Rehman, Tara Sabharwal, Sadia Salim, Negin Sharifzadeh (Moss), Pallavi Sharma, Meenakshi Thirukode, Anahita Vossoughi, Nazneen Ayyub Wood.
www.sawcc.org
http://www.queensmuseum.org/5052/the-par
Read the review in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/arts/d
August 11, 2012–October 7, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 11, 3–6 pm
Curated by Jaishri Abichandani
Assistant Curator: Josheen Oberoi
@ Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, New York 11368
In celebration of our 15th anniversary, Her Stories is a retrospective look at SAWCC’s past and present, featuring the creative works of over a hundred diasporic South Asian women artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and writers, with an installation of archival photographs, publications, and ephemera. The artwork selected for this exhibition prioritizes decorative and identity-based concepts in order to examine the trajectory of feminist art.
Artists:
Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abichandani, Nida Abidi, Fariba Alam, Indrani Ashe, Shelly Bahl, Anjali Bhargava, Monica Jahan Bose, Marcy Chevali, Nandini Chirimar, Ruby Chishti, Poulomi Desai, Mariam Ghani, Roya Farassat, Chitra Ganesh, Hayat Gul, Aisha Abid Hussain, Vandana Jain, Mona Kamal, Jesal Kapadia, Asma Kazmi, Tara Kelton, Amber Khokhar, Sarita Khurana, Swati Khurana, Pooneh Maghazehe, Annu Mathew, Samanta Batra Mehta, Jayna Mistry, Sabelo Narasimhan, Yamini Nayar, Bhanu Palam, Shruti Parekh, Amruta Patil, Kaveri Raina, Sa’dia Rehman, Tara Sabharwal, Sadia Salim, Negin Sharifzadeh (Moss), Pallavi Sharma, Meenakshi Thirukode, Anahita Vossoughi, Nazneen Ayyub Wood.
www.sawcc.org
http://www.queensmuseum.org/5052/the-par
Read the review in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/arts/d
Peekskill Project V
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) is pleased to announce Peekskill Project V: a citywide art festival devoted to bringing cutting edge contemporary art out of the museum and into the community. Using the city as a stage, Peekskill Project activates the urban environment and its inhabitants through site-specific art exhibitions, performances and screenings sited in multiple venues throughout Peekskill.
Opening September 22.
http://www.hvcca.org/PeekskillProject.ht
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) is pleased to announce Peekskill Project V: a citywide art festival devoted to bringing cutting edge contemporary art out of the museum and into the community. Using the city as a stage, Peekskill Project activates the urban environment and its inhabitants through site-specific art exhibitions, performances and screenings sited in multiple venues throughout Peekskill.
Opening September 22.
http://www.hvcca.org/PeekskillProject.ht
Spring Pictures of the Floating World;
A Dream of The Fisherman's Wife
Director/Choreographer Melanie S Armer
Room Installation by Marcy Chevali
Sound Design by Joey Asal
Video Design by Robert Montenegro
Performance by Robin Johnson
Peculiar Works Projects Presents a site-specific, Muliti-diciplinary experience recreating classic erotica. Over 50 installation artists, designers, directors, composers, choreographers, puppeteers and performers will transform the basement of LaMama into a grand pleasure palace. This two-part performance installation, reimagines 17th century Japanese Shunga also known as "Pillow Books ". The unique hybrid event features immersive installations which integrate live, multi-disciplinary performance in an exhibition context.
June 28-July 1, 2012
Thurs & Fri 7-11pm,
Sat 4-11pm
Sun 4-8p,
Tickets are available at peculiarworks.org or by calling Ovation Tickets at 866.811.4111
at La Mama 66 East 4th Street between Bowery and 2nd Ave
A Dream of The Fisherman's Wife
Director/Choreographer Melanie S Armer
Room Installation by Marcy Chevali
Sound Design by Joey Asal
Video Design by Robert Montenegro
Performance by Robin Johnson
Peculiar Works Projects Presents a site-specific, Muliti-diciplinary experience recreating classic erotica. Over 50 installation artists, designers, directors, composers, choreographers, puppeteers and performers will transform the basement of LaMama into a grand pleasure palace. This two-part performance installation, reimagines 17th century Japanese Shunga also known as "Pillow Books ". The unique hybrid event features immersive installations which integrate live, multi-disciplinary performance in an exhibition context.
June 28-July 1, 2012
Thurs & Fri 7-11pm,
Sat 4-11pm
Sun 4-8p,
Tickets are available at peculiarworks.org or by calling Ovation Tickets at 866.811.4111
at La Mama 66 East 4th Street between Bowery and 2nd Ave
Contentious Conundrums: The Ethics and Ecology of Arresting Images
June 4-June 30
Exhibition Reception - June 15
Macy Art Gallery Teachers College Columbia University
525 West 120 Street, Macy Hall 444
This exhibition will show artwork with difficult and compelling subjects by a selection of artists and examine through their work the educational potential of interpretive inquiry through a curator's gaze. Issues explored in the exhibit will include insider-outsider perpectives and contesting ways of seeing and being seen with respect to political, ethnic, national, gender, sexual and professional identities. The exhibit will be accompanied by a performative event in which artists and curator will thematically dialog with words and images about objects exhibited and processes explored in the making of the work, discursively addressing the interpretive dilemmas evoked by the works in an educational context.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/a&h/arted
June 4-June 30
Exhibition Reception - June 15
Macy Art Gallery Teachers College Columbia University
525 West 120 Street, Macy Hall 444
This exhibition will show artwork with difficult and compelling subjects by a selection of artists and examine through their work the educational potential of interpretive inquiry through a curator's gaze. Issues explored in the exhibit will include insider-outsider perpectives and contesting ways of seeing and being seen with respect to political, ethnic, national, gender, sexual and professional identities. The exhibit will be accompanied by a performative event in which artists and curator will thematically dialog with words and images about objects exhibited and processes explored in the making of the work, discursively addressing the interpretive dilemmas evoked by the works in an educational context.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/a&h/arted
Toothsome
In 'Castle', the character of myself recreates a narrative of a failed attempt at love. She builds a castle using sugar, melted into sheets of lollipop to build a living place as ideal as the extremity of sugar. The structure is not very strong and I expect it to melt and warp, perhaps mirroring the attainability of the ideal. Though the piece is unpredictable, I plan on building it during the opening of the show. The structure will morph on its own accord for the remainder of the exhibition.
http://marcychevali.com/section/133595_C
"TOOTHSOME"
May 17 - June 10
Opening May 17th, 7-9 pm
An "ABC NO Rio in Exile" show
BULLETSPACE
292 East 3rd Street (Between ave C and D)
212-254-3697
http://www.abcnorio.org/
"Toothsome" brings together artists that work with sugar, honey and candy. Rather than being turned off by the materials' inherent susceptibility to humidity, time, and vermin, the artists instead explore its seductive qualities, its loaded history and its metaphorical possibilities. Sculptures, installations and videos touch upon such varied topics as housing insecurity, consumption, the industrial food complex, while also addressing formal issues of sugar and its unique material qualities.
Organized by Vandana Jain
Participating Artists:
Jenn Berklich, Johanna Bartelt, Marcy Chevali, Lisa Dahl, Vandana Jain, Christina Kelly, Anna Miller, Yuka Otani, Kerianne Quick
Gallery Hours:
Wed and Thurs: 5-7pm
Sunday: 2-4pm
or by appt: abc@abcnorio.org
Exhibition supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
In 'Castle', the character of myself recreates a narrative of a failed attempt at love. She builds a castle using sugar, melted into sheets of lollipop to build a living place as ideal as the extremity of sugar. The structure is not very strong and I expect it to melt and warp, perhaps mirroring the attainability of the ideal. Though the piece is unpredictable, I plan on building it during the opening of the show. The structure will morph on its own accord for the remainder of the exhibition.
http://marcychevali.com/section/133595_C
"TOOTHSOME"
May 17 - June 10
Opening May 17th, 7-9 pm
An "ABC NO Rio in Exile" show
BULLETSPACE
292 East 3rd Street (Between ave C and D)
212-254-3697
http://www.abcnorio.org/
"Toothsome" brings together artists that work with sugar, honey and candy. Rather than being turned off by the materials' inherent susceptibility to humidity, time, and vermin, the artists instead explore its seductive qualities, its loaded history and its metaphorical possibilities. Sculptures, installations and videos touch upon such varied topics as housing insecurity, consumption, the industrial food complex, while also addressing formal issues of sugar and its unique material qualities.
Organized by Vandana Jain
Participating Artists:
Jenn Berklich, Johanna Bartelt, Marcy Chevali, Lisa Dahl, Vandana Jain, Christina Kelly, Anna Miller, Yuka Otani, Kerianne Quick
Gallery Hours:
Wed and Thurs: 5-7pm
Sunday: 2-4pm
or by appt: abc@abcnorio.org
Exhibition supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Studio Residency at Gallery Aferro
My residency at Gallery Aferro ended in February. Here is a video of my work there made by Andrew, a gallery intern. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uYiS16mc
My residency at Gallery Aferro ended in February. Here is a video of my work there made by Andrew, a gallery intern. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uYiS16mc
