Pradeep Dalal (ICP-Bard MFA alum + co-chair, photography program, Bard MFA ) in group show “I need my memories. They are my documents.” sepiaEYE

I would love to see the ICP-Bard MFA cohort at the walk through I'm giving of the group show, "I need my memories. They are my documents.",  this Saturday, Oct 30th at 2 pm. The exhibition has photo based works, drawing and videos of five non-western artists who work with existing material (repository) in unique…

Remembering Absent Meaning MFA Thesis Exhibition: Nandita Raman Please join me for the opening reception of my MFA thesis exhibition on Thursday, February 2, from 6-9pm. Opening Reception: February 2 | Thursday | 6:00–9:00 pm On View: February 3-4 | Friday–Saturday | 12:00–5:00 pm ICP-Bard MFA Studios, 24–20 Jackson Avenue, 3rd Floor, Long Island City, New…

Raghubir Singh -A way into India

These photographs are from the series A way into India taken between 1985-1999 by Raghubir Singh( 1942-1999). Born in Jaipur, Raghubir Singh was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York. In the early 1970s he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color…

Manipulated Photograph

                This photograph is titled William McGrath Murders Wife, 1917.  The Illustration on top of the original photograph which shows the bodies covered by sheets was done by a Denver Post Illustrator to narrate the murder. The News paper published another photograph showing McGrath turning the short gun…

Materiality of Language

                In Sam Lewitt's show titled Total Immersion Environment is a series of photographs titled Paper Citizen. These are images  of letter press casts arranged, as if, for printing as a page of a book. It was only instinctive to try and read the words which are arranged…

Making Pictures

I tried drawing it was an interesting medium but not a dynamic one. Films, on the other hand, was dynamic but almost too much -research, scheduling, budgets, producers, crew, editing, no budget, time’s up. Picture making seems to have the right amount of flexibility to turn it in any direction. I can work individually or…

ON NOT BEING A TREE – Art, place and the tyranny of context

ON NOT BEING A TREE - Art, place and the tyranny of context Aveek Sen These two pictures were made by the Mexican photographer, Graciela Iturbide. Both are hanging now in Delhi’s Instituto Cervantes as part of a show called — with a baffling and, one hopes, unintended vengefulness — An Eye for an Eye.…

Response-A Film Unfinished

A film Unfinished is a film about a film. This to me is the starting point and a place where I keep pausing after seeing the film and thinking about it. The film was disturbing in its imagery and more so in what it was exposing. But thinking of it, I could not ignore that…