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”

Nandita Raman's ICP/Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition 2-2-12

Interview with Nandita Raman by Patricia Silva

Nandita Raman is currently finalizing her MFA thesis show, Remembering Absent Meaning, which opens on Thursday, February 2. Born 1980, Varanasi, India, she studied Graphic Communications before directing documentaries and managing the production of international documentaries and ad films. Nandita Raman, 2011. Left: Untitled, 20"x24", Inkjet print. Right: International Paper Hammermill Fore® Multi-purpose 99.99% Jam-FreeTM,…

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…

Classmates series

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…