CHITRA GANESH ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, 2014

Durham Press is pleased to introduce the work of Chitra Ganesh. Architects of the Future, is a set of four woodblock and screenprints that combine between fifteen and forty impressions each. They all share the same height of 25 3/4” and range in width from 18” to 44.” They were made in an edition of 25 and are available as a set or individual prints.

“Architects of the Future is a further exploration of integrating iconic mythic imagery inspired by the Indian Comic Series Amar Chitra Katha with the visual language of early science fiction from the 60s and 70s - space exploration, interplanetary travel, alongside contemporary preoccupations of environmental deterioration and dystopic futures. In these works, Ganesh combines the tropes of vintage comics with her own visual iconography, suggesting a link between contemporary science fiction and mythologies of the past. The 4 images form a fluid, non linear narrative, using the arc of exploration and discovery to meditate on untimely desire and loss.”

Ganesh’s drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations seek to excavate and circulate buried narratives typically excluded from official canons of history, literature, and art. By layering disparate materials and visual languages, Ganesh asks her viewers to consider alternate narratives of sexuality and power in a world where untold stories keep rising to the surface. In this process the body becomes a site of transgression, both social and psychic, doubled, dismembered and continually exceeding its limits.

Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in , NY, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from magna cum laude, with a BA in Comparative Literature and Art Semiotics in 1996. In 2001, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received her MFA from in 2002. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues including the , the Queens Museum of Art, the Asia Society, Bronx Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, White Columns, Momenta Art, and Apex Art in . International venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Devi Art Foundation (New Delhi), EVAM (Spain), Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), and the Prince of Wales Museum (Mumbai). Ganesh is the recipient of a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Creative Arts, with recent solo projects at the Gothenburg Kunsthalle, MoMA PS1, and The Andy Warhol Museum. Most recently, Ganesh is the Artist-In-Residence for the 2013-14 term at NYU and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute. She is also involved with the Visiting Scholar Program at RISD, the school’s first Kirloskar Visiting Scholar in Painting.

The prints are available directly through our gallery. Please contact Gwyneth Fearnhead for more information, [email protected].

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