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INDIA UNBOUND!
Provisions Fall 2005 program, India Unbound!, focuses on India and its colonial and post-colonial histories. An exhibition and related special programs examine and challenge recurring themes and stereotypes, opening new ways of envisioning the power of art and social change in 21st century India. India Unbound! features Rajkamal Kahlon’s Unbound- a series of gouache paintings that confront India’s colonial history. Kahlon’s highly-charged images are superimposed on original pages from Eric Cassell’s The Illustrated History of India, a classic 19th-century text intended to explain and popularize India in the West. Kahlon’s images are passionate and provocative commentaries that highlight, caricature or obliterate Cassell’s…
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CHANGE METHODS: HIP-HOP, SOCIAL CHANGE & GLOBAL INFLUENCES
The Change Methods exhibition was an interactive experience for visitors to Provisions Library. Featuring the work of 10 renowned artists and filmmakers, this exploratory exhibit presented both a celebratory and critical survey of the many facets and permutations of hip-hop culture. Artists exhibited include John Ahearn, Rigoberto Torres, Sanford Biggers, Iona Rozeal Brown, Brett Cook, Keith Haring, Packard Jennings, Jose Ruiz, Kelly Towles, and Kehinde Wiley. Films screened include Mr. Catro O Fiel (a documentary about Baile Funk), Brown Like Dat (a documentary about South Asian MC’s, beatboxers, spoken word artists, and producers), Soundz of Spirit (directed by Joslyn Rose…
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ON THE SUBJECT OF WAR
‘On The Subject of War features work by Bobby Neel Adams, Mike Asente, The Barnstormers, Nina Berman, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Ron Haviv, Susan Meiselas, Eve Sussman, Patricia Thornley, Sarah Trigg, and photographs by anonymous WWII photographers from the Edward C. Graves collection. The exhibition was on display March 4, 2005 – May 1, 2005. BOOKS Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines Bobby Neel Adams David Levi Strauss Purple Hearts: Back From Iraq Nina Berman The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace Advocates of Peace Addicted to War: Why the US Can’t Kick Militarism Joel Andreas…
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SHILPA GUPTA
Shilpa Gupta creates artwork using interactive websites, video, gallery environments and public performances and has exhibited all over the world. Her subversive populism bites into and chews up the global economy, consumerism, religion, and complex dynamics of the Internet. Her works are mock-serious but authoritative provocations seizing on environmental exploitation, cheap labor, international debt, mass production, compulsive buying, cultures in contention, militarism, and human rights abuse. All her works reveal the impact of personal choice. The exhibition was on display March 4, 2005 – May 1, 2005. This is Gupta’s first solo show in the United States. Her work is…
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COMFORT WOMEN
Hung Liu grew up in China and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She spent four years in the countryside as a laborer, studied painting at the Central Academy of Art and in 1984, received permission to attend the University of California-San Diego where she earned an M.F.A. Using anonymous historical photographs as the subject matter of her paintings and prints, Liu reconstructs an unknown story. She embellishes the surfaces with lovely drawings of insects, flowers and birds, painterly drips and collage elements that create veils of time and meaning over her subjects. “Everything is relative. My work…
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COMO LA SAVILA/LIKE THE ALOE
Carmen Lomas Garza, Tito’s Gig on the Moon, 36x 48 inches, 2002 Carmen Lomas Garza’s narrative folk style draws from diverse Mexican visual traditions, while elevated viewpoints, mesmerizing detail, and a dynamic use of pattern and color enliven her seemingly straightforward compositions. Trained as an arts educator as well as a painter, her works offer visual lessons in the importance of family and community rituals. Her captivating children’s books have helped fuel a resurgence of interest in ways of life that are threatened by a hegemonic culture. The exhibition was on display November 15, 2004 – January 18, 2005. BOOKS…
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YO, WHAT HAPPENED TO PEACE?
These poster artists scream out against creeping totalitarianism, political hypocrisy and deceit, fear, hate, terrorism, traitors, world domination, the wages of war, corporate malfeasance, and the loss of common space and resources. Although using traditional poster media, like silkscreen and hand-set type, these artists infuse their work with the up-to-the-minute sensibilities of the digital age. The exhibition took place October 27, 2004 – November 28, 2004 BOOKS Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated James Mann, ed. Collection of posters and graphics against the war in Iraq. Artburn Judith Vidal-Hall, ed. Robbie Conal Art and sharp-tongued political commentary. Graphic Agitation and Graphic Agitation…
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BREAKING THE SURFACE
Roxanne Swentzell, Remote Woman “I’m Getting That Far Away Feeling Again”, Ceramic, 199 Roxanne Swentzell was born in 1962, the daughter of Rina Swentzell, a potter, writer and scholar from Santa Clara Pueblo, and Ralph Swentzell, a New Jersey-born teacher at St. John’s college in Santa Fe. From her father’s side she was exposed to Gregorian chants on the stereo, painting by Rubens and sculpture by Michelangelo. On the Pueblo side there were dances and feast days, drumming and singing, pottery making and a Tewa name: Ojegepovi, which means “frost flower,” or “snowflakes,” in recognition of the season in which…
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SEIZING THE MYTHS: ART OF REBELLION
Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion features the work of Alice Beasley, Virginia Harris, Kathleen Jesse, Shirin Neshat, Angel Ramirez, Betye Saar, Joyce Scott, Shahzia Sikander, Tabitha Vevers, Juan Videla, and Carrie Mae Weems. The exhibition was on display June 15, 2004 – August 30, 2004
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