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PRESS RELEASE Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia Gallery, New York are proud to present The Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity (Young, Female, South Asian) January 17th to February 3rd, 2007 Including works by: The title implies the possibilities available to South Asian women today, both at home and as they migrate around the world. Combining Indian, Pakistani and American artists living in both India and the United States, the exhibition hopes to present something of the diversity of art practices and visual imagery coming from today¹s younger generation, born in the 1970s. While limited to two-dimensional works, the exhibition presents an eclectic mix of styles and mediums, challenging notions of identity fabricated on inherited cultures or appropriated contexts. Mala Iqbal was born in the Bronx, New York in 1973 and lives and works today in Brooklyn. She received a BA in both Visual Art and English from Columbia University in 1995 and a MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Her small-scale paintings hover between natural history illustrations and science fiction. She has spoken of attempting to locate a space at the intersection of the imagination and observation, combining the familiar with the strange. Her inspirations include both wilderness and civilization, experience and emotional states. Yamini Nayar was born in Rochester, NY in 1975, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999, a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005, and lives and works today in New York City. The artist creates large-format digital photographs of imagined environments, delicately constructed from an assemblage of found objects and archival photographs. Through her meticulous and poignant arrangements, Nayar explores the illusory power of photography and the ambiguous space between fantasy and reality. Prajakta Palav was born in Bombay in 1979, where she continues to live and work. A graduate from the Sir JJ School of Art in Bombay (BFA, 2000 and MFA, 2002), she has been exhibiting her works in group shows throughout India since 1998. Her paintings are characterized by common scenes and objects presented in an unconventional manner; her focus often settles on the intermediate areas between public and private spaces. Seher Shah was born in Karachi in 1975, received both a BFA and a BA in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (1998), and today lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her works combine the bravura of architectural draftsmanship with found images from a wide variety of sources, often employing motifs from Islamic art and architecture to comment on current international events. Aditi Singh was born in Guwahati, in the extreme north east of India, in 1976. She received an MFA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and after living in New York City for a few years has recently relocated to Bombay. Her works explore drawing as a state of mind, introducing diverse materials and allowing the image to be generated from the process of its own making.
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