Artist Statement

The more i look the more i find.

Bio

Originally born in India,1972, grew up in chicago and lives and works in New York, California and India. Artist, Preet Srivastava questions personal and political identity by direct observation of human nature and form, vaticinations are immured on canvas.
Our time finds itself steeped deep in contradiction. While technological advances in communication have allowed for global intimacy, we seem to have lost a real sense of "domesticity" - a core geography and way of life we call "home". On the one hand, we find individual significance through group identification with larger cultural categories such as race and gender. On the other hand these very categories dissolve our individualities. While international awareness allows us to understand the depth of systematic cultural oppression - the idea that we as a people are less than - the political scope of defeating western imperialism isolates us from our individual traits. We divert our individuality to support a wider political alliance. The result of retiring the intimate personal for the supra-political has been global networks along side fragmented individualities- a dichotomy of unity and disunity between political recognition and personal representation.

Education

• Academy of Art San Francisco, 1999, San Francisco, California
• University of Redlands, 1994, BS Biology, Redlands, California

Exibitions

• Governors Island, " Governors Island Art Fair", September 5 - October 12, 2008, Governors Island, NY
• St. Marks United Methodist Church,
• Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery,
• Citi Bank Financial Center", JVC Jazz Festival", June 24 - August 31 2008, Harlem, NY
• Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival, "preet ", June 6 - 8 2008, Bklyn, NY
• Long Beach Gallery, "Tour Des Artistes 2008", July 14 - Sept 14 2008
• Vision Jazz Festival, "artist", June 10 - June 15 2008
• Bronfman Center Gallery, "Becoming", March 27 - April 18, 2008 NY, NY
• Jazz Gallery, "Eyes and Ears", solo show, October 26 - January 15, 2007, NY, NY
• Cafe India, "home", permanent artist, 3760-5 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA
• Lincoln Center, American Arts Council of NYC, November 2007, NY, NY
• White Space, 11/11/2006, "Artist", Bklyn, NY
• Chelsea Museum, "Artists Talk On Art", 11/13/2006, NY, NY
• Zito Gallery, group show - 04/06, Manhattan, NY
• "Clifton Faust", group show - 04/06, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY
  

Press

Online
• Artinfo
• Artcritical
• Rivaj magazine
• EGO magazine
• White space gallery
• 3 quarks daily
• Bronfman center gallery
  

Offline
• Rivaj magazine. 06/11/2008.
  pg 14 & 15, "preet srivastava and the power of art"
• Art in Education.
  Interview with Rina Banerjee & Shahzia Sikander by Darshana Patel.
• EGO magazine. 09/11/2007.
  "Dont be Afraid to be Different". Artist Interview.