Transcending Cultural and Aesthetic Boundaries A discussion moderated by Michelle Yun with presentations by Rina Banerjee, Cui Fei, and Kambui Olujimi Sunday, June 7, 2:00–3:30 PM

In conjunction with our current exhibition, New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture curated by Jan Garden Castro and Eileen Jeng, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs is pleased to present: Transcending Cultural and Aesthetic Boundaries A discussion moderated by Michelle Yun with presentations by Rina Banerjee, Cui Fei, & Kambui Olujimi SEATING WILL BE LIMITED RSVP 718-937-6317 or [email protected] Michelle Yun, and exhibition artists Rina Banerjee, Cui Fei and Kambui Olujimi will discuss issues of cultural identity and aesthetic conventions in relation to their works in the exhibition. The panel will explore imagery, symbolism and the unique use of materials in these artists’ practices.

Michelle Yun is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum where she manages the museum’s initiatives in modern and contemporary visual art by Asian and Asian American artists. Appointed in 2012, Yun specializes in Chinese Contemporary Art and diaspora artists. Yun is currently co-organizing a retrospective exhibi- tion for the modernist painter Zao Wou-ki scheduled to open at Asia Society Museum in the fall of 2016. Yun previously Kambui Olujimi Untitled (from Mourners, served as Project Director of Cai Guo-Qiang’s studio and managed the artist’s mid-career retrospective at the Solomon series), 2010 R. Guggenheim Museum that travelled to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing as part of the cultural Olympiad in 2008. She was formerly a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The , and has organized numerous independently curated exhibitions. Rina Banerjee was born in 1963 in , and lives and works in . She studied Polymer Engineering at the Case Institute of Technology in Ohio, 1993 and Painting and Printmaking at the , , 1995. Banerjee’s work is featured in numerous col- lections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, ; Hammer Museum, Cui Fei Tracing the Origin VIII, 2010-present University of California Los Angeles; Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi, India; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York. Rina Banerjee: Tropical Urban is on view at Jacob Lewis Gallery through June 6, 2015. See also rinabanerjee.com Cui Fei was born in Jinan, China in 1970 and is based in New York City. Cui Fei utilizes natural materials, such as tendrils, leaves, thorns and sand, and arranges them in calligraphic formations. Cui received her BFA in painting from the China Acad- emy of Fine Arts and MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries Rina Banerjee She worldwide. Cui has been cited in various publications, including Art in America, , and . was now in western style She has received grants and awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA Fellowship, BRIO Award from dress covered in part of the Bronx Council on the Arts, and was selected into the Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Empires’ ruffle and red Arts. See also cuifei.net dress, had a foreign and peculiar race, a Ganesha Kambui Olujimi was born in 1976 and lives and works in . He received his BFA from , NY who had lost her head, and MFA from Columbia University, NY. He had museum solo exhibitions at de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, was thrown across sea 2008; Art in General, New York, 2010; Apexart, New York, 2012; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, until herself shipwrecked. 2014. His works have been featured in group exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; Los Angeles County A native of Bangladesh lost foot to root in Museum of Art; , New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Yerba Buena Center for Bidesh, followed her the Arts, San Francisco, among others. His work is in the collections of the of Art and the Orange County mother full stop on fore- Museum of Art. See also kambuiolujimi.com head, trapped tongue of horn and grew ram-like under stress, 2012 For more information about New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, please visit www.dorsky.org to download the PDF version of the brochure containing the curator’s essay.

This exhibition, publication, and related programming are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. This program is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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