Beth Citron
“Zarina: Paper Like Skin”
October 2012
Since the early 1960s, Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi has developed a minimal artistic language that balances materiality with themes of home, displacement, and memory.… READ ON
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M. F. Husain’s Through the Eyes of a Painter
SLANT
October 2012
IN A RADICAL AND SHORT-LIVED initiative in the 1960s, India’s national Films Division (established as a documentary unit just after independence in 1947) invited artists and filmmakers to develop their own experimental projects. Under the… READ ON
IN PRINT October 2012 [TOC]
“HomeSpun”
September 2011
Though conceived to survey notions of domestic space, “HomeSpun” features some of South Asia’s leading globe-trotters, including Subodh Gupta, Rashid Rana, and Sudarshan Shetty, among more than two dozen others. … READ ON
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Sandeep Mukherjee
September 2010
Six stories above the noisy bustle of Chinatown, Sandeep Mukherjee’s first solo exhibition in New York (and the inaugural show of Brennan & Griffin) offers a quiet and beautiful respite. Manipulating various combinations of acrylic and … READ ON
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Liz Magic Laser
May 2010
In her exhibition “chase,” Liz Magic Laser renders a contemporary, layered interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s 1926 play Man Equals Man––a harsh, if comedic, parable about the perils of capitalist greed. Laser’s show features a … READ ON
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
May 2010
The larger-than-life portraits comprising the London-born Ghanaian artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s exhibition “Essays and Documents” confront the viewer with strong gazes and bold brushstrokes. In contrast to what the show’s title … READ ON
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Walt Cassidy
April 2010
In his first solo exhibition, “The Protective Motif,” Walt Cassidy maps his own unconscious through a group of photographs, drawings, and sculptures filled mostly with geometric forms. Whether these triangles, dots, and lines are meditations… READ ON
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Risham Syed
April 2010
In her first solo exhibition in the United States, Lahore, Pakistan–based Risham Syed presents a striking landscape of Victoriana and contemporary violence. Comprising a series of paintings set into theatrical installations and unusual … READ ON
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“Resemble/Reassemble”
April 2010
Featuring miniature paintings and room-size installations, and works whose reference points range from Lollywood (Lahore’s film industry) to Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, “Resemble/Reassemble” sets out to show the broad … READ ON
IN PRINT April 2010 [TOC]
Sudarshan Shetty
March 2010
Like the ungraspable clauses of its title, “The More I Die, the Lighter I Get,” the works in Sudarshan Shetty’s latest exhibition are at once mysterious and subtle, each a sardonic dance of conceptual elements and material forms. The … READ ON