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Current Exhibition: Antonio Puri - 'Tenth Door'

2nd May - 22nd May 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8th, 2008; 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Antonio will be in attendance

 
THE GUILD, NY. is pleased to present Antonio Puri’s solo exhibition ‘The Tenth Door.” Philadelphia Art Critic Robin Rice states in her essay for the exhibition catalogue that ‘…the Tenth Door…is the door to the highest perception, the door to infinity, and, most important, release from the cycle of reincarnate life.”

In this new body of work, Puri encompasses both large and small canvasses that address the unknown and by so doing, creates awareness. Working with different materials, including shellac, newspaper and human ashes, provided the artist with insight into developing a connection with the after life.

When asked why he chose to incorporate crematory ashes in some of the paintings in this exhibition, Puri explains that “‘Death,’ in quotation marks, is a misconception. The real death is our state of ignorance. I want to create an afterlife for those ashes to parallel the afterlife that we all experience.”
Robin Rice goes on to say that “However one interprets this multilayered symbol, the Tenth Door is always the last door.”
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Previous Exhibition:
Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora"
April 3rd - 26th, 2008
 
The Indo-American Arts Council and GUILD, NY present "Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora". The exhibition, explores the contributions of artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian Subcontinent. This will be the 4th annual Erasing Borders exhibition. Click here for more Information
 
  The Participating Artists Include:
Amina Ahmed, Fariba Alam, Salma Arastu, Shelly Bahl, Siona Benjamin, Anna Bhushan, Bushra Chaudry, Bivas Chaudhuri, Nandini Chirimar, Mareena Waheeda Daredia, Delna Dastur, Vinod Dave, Anindita Dutta, Anujan Ezhikode, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Asha Ganpat, Arvind Garg, Mumtaz Hussain, Satish Joshi, Reeta Karmarkar, Swati Khurana, Vijay Kumar, Srinivas Kuruganti, Samanta Batra Mehta, Alakananda Mukerji, Pratima Naithani, Veru Narula, Kuzana Ogg, Antonio Puri, Niema Khan Qureshi, Alka Raghuram, Sukanya Rahman, Chirag Rana, Tara Sabharwal, Ela Shah, Reuben Sinha, Anjali Srinivasan, Suhas Tavkar, Prince Varughese Thomas, Yetish Yetish.
 
Past Exhibition: Heeral Trivedi - There are in our existence…….spots of time
March 7-25, 2008
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“A picture speaks a thousand words”

Image-making dates back to prehistoric times. If it can stand separate from the self, it becomes universal. What does a painting mean, why does one want to speak in the language of colours and images? New Art accommodates both the creative and the imitative. It looks for pictorial values in art first, which overlooks the physical or linguistic values. I see my works beyond what I choose to paint. Getting ‘under’ is a constant activity and is essentially how my surface arises. Space is a busy area, deep and heavy and sometimes it is like peeping through a dusty glass window pane that fuzzes the edges of everything behind it.

The content of these paintings draws much from literature/poetry and history. Less glorious than it is intense, these pictures are not meant to be seen as illustrations (to me) but are revoked thoughts, ponderous ideas and fluid music. (continued)
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Past Exhibition:
" Inner Vision " - Curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla

February 2008 6:30-8:30pm
 
The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Inner Vision, a multi-media group show curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla.

During the present times of high urbanization, human beings have tried their best to bestow all their knowledge and establish a compatible relationship with nature. Yet, so indignant has been the results at times, that one may doubt about the systems of knowledge which apparently control and shape nature according to one’s need.
Inner Vision

Romantics framed nature as wild, violent, destructive, and irrational, as well as protective, awe-inspiring and sublime. They considered nature the supreme force against the logical and reasonable human mind and worshipped its primordial qualities. Artists chose to establish a relationship of Supreme Being and, simultaneously, of oneness with nature, replacing God. This may happen while engaging with the materials which appear to build on repetitive action like hand- stitching, knitting or washing and yet constructs a paradoxical imagery. This conversion is also observed as an inner vision while one draws a metamorphosing relationship with the material world

The experiences of highly rational form of societies have led us to question and establish the relationship with nature in a renewed fashion. Inner Vision is an attempt to observe how artists address their connection to this primordial substance in terms of representation of their five senses or the philosophic execution of their forms.

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A. Ramachandran - ‘Face to Face’ 

Opening Reception: 6th December 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Artist will be in attendance. 

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Past Exhibition: Om Soorya - 'Random Mirroes in the City of Villagers'

September 2007, New York – To start off the 2007-08 Art season in New York, The Guild introduced Om Soorya, a young emerging artist from India, in his first solo show. 

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See Om Soorya's profile here.

 
Past Exhibition: A Gallery Collection - Arunanshu Chowdhury & Amitava Das.
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Past Exhibition: Erasing Borders Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora (Click here to View)
 
Past Exhibition: "Vidya Kamat: Tales From The Edge" (Click here to View)

Vidya Kamat, who lives and works in Mumbai, India, presents a collection of Photomontages in her first solo exhibition in New York.
Her latest exhibition ‘Tales From The Edge’ deals with the popular representations of gods, goddesses, holy men and women. 1.
She articulates her ideological positioning within this discourse of ‘holy-ness’ by superimposing her own portraits with the popular holy representations, using digital manipulations. If not understood within the theoretical framework she sets for it, re-articulation or re-presentation of Tales From The Edge could amount to vandalism and desecration, considering the counter positioning adopted by the religious fundamentalists on the aesthetical issues in our recent art historical past.”
 
In the artist’s own words, “‘Tales From The Edge is an attempt to understand personal/political/social iconographies articulated through popular/religious posters of gods, goddesses and political personalities. Term ‘Holy’ holds a place of great fascination in our collective imagination. It signifies the longing for a time or state that transcends the conflicting nature of everyday reality existing only in tales handed down from generation to generation as a collective memory. The Indian public imagination keeps reclaiming this state through constantly inventing holy men and women who operate as beacons that once again herald such transcended states. In my work I have used the visual props gathered from popular poster art that are usually employed to suggest holiness and then superimposed them on self portraits.”

“I believe that Kamat’s position on the scared is interestingly unique, among contemporary Indian women artists, because she is invested in the deep structure of Hindu religious life. She is both participant and observer, not a neutral, iconic or behalfist intervener empathizing with another’s experience. However critical or adversarial her position is towards the milieu of her origin, she knows, both intuitively and intellectually, what the location signifies and demands.” 2.

See Vidya's profile here.

2. From Re-write - Vidya Kamat, by Nancy Adajania
 


Past Exhibition: "New Voices - A Group Show" (Click here to View)

 
 
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