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Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art Feb-June 2008
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Alakananda Mukerji |
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Artist Statement:
It is through the creation of art that I discovered who I am and what I want to do with my
life. Being an Educator and an Artist I got involve with the arts that has allowed me to
discover my desire to teach others about art and experience the creation of art with them.
When I paint, my memories, and precious little moment of past become my present:
people or times that may be gone in the physical sense remain forever in my art. My art
displays a passion for simplicity. I love rich and bright colors of Rajasthan, rhyme of
Banaras, India.
My life revolved around Ganges, animals and people for long time. My art is sometimes
only a conversation between me and medium. Everything in life is a process. There is
always a rhyme or reason behind my process. Materials, usually anything I get a hold of a
combination of a few mediums and idea becomes a production of something great.
Sometimes work just must be created. It spills unexpected colors and textures across a
studio wall. It prevents you from sleeping without dreaming of the next painting. I have
created instead, works that reflect my own very personal inner environment. It is a world
of half realized hopes, connections, snaps of images. A dreamscape which uses as its
imagery my mother, my family, friends, India and people and animals that I don’t know
from which I have, for years, abstracted my own visual language.
Sometimes we do not see what we have already understood. And we do not always
understand what we perceive. We rely on our senses and yet we manage to sometimes not
consciously process what the truth told us and perception has offered us.
Recent development that I find in my pain tings talks more about what we see and what
we don’t see. I want to share and experience my thoughts, dealings with generation to
come-telling its story to keep it alive.
The simple, dynamic and straightforward line color and shape in nature interests me.
It is what makes each individual artist unique. I create art because it makes me happy.
It is my outlet for expression, my place to escape from the rest of the world around me.
Education
MFA-SUNY, New Paltz,
New York
MFA-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India
Ph. D. in Art History-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,
India
Higher Studies of Arts-Greek Ministry of Education ScholarshipAthens Greece.
SHOWS AND MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
Guild Art Gallery, New York, USA
Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Gallery Mai, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery KiKi, Chiba, Japan
Kristen Art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
IndiaArt Gallery, Pune, India
Village Art Gallery, Katonah, NY, USA
The Artists’ Guild, Fort Lee, NJ, USA
ABC Gallery, Mount Vernon, NY, USA
Meserve Coale Gallery, Greenwich, CT, USA
The Soho Gallery at 678 Broadway, New York, New York
The Community Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
The Darisuz Gubala Gallery of Madison Avenue, New York
Jwahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India
National Exhibition of Lalit Kala Academy, Lucknow, India
Passaic County College, Passaic, NJ, USA
The Gallery of Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA
Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India
Morgain Industrial Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
All India Fine Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Calcutta, India
University Gallery at SUNY, New Paltz, NY, USA
Arts & Music Center, Elmer, New Jersey
National Exhibition of Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
Fourth Drawing Laboratory of High Education, Athens, Greece
Lalit Kala Academy, Calcutta, India
All India Drawing Exhibitions, New Delhi, India
Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India
Chandigarh Art Society, Punjab, India
Other Activities
Board of Judges: Grants and Scholarships in Art, Music and TheaterPassaic County, Passaic New Jersey Director of Brownson Art Gallery, Manhattanville College:Currently involved in selection of artists and planning of professional shows.Organize Gallery lectures, talks, and presentations |
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