For those of you in the New York area this summer, I highly recommend that you check out the Aicon gallery. Located at 35 Great Jones St, the gallery has two South Asian centric exhibitions this summer.
The current exhibition, "Towards the End", features work from Pakistani artist Adeela Suleman. Born and raised in Karachi, Suleman is currently a member of the Fine Arts department at the Indus valley school of Art & Architecture. According to the gallery's press release:
"The exhibition hinges around a new group of monumental hand-beaten steel reliefs, rendered in the hammered metal-working tradition of Islamic art, depicting beheaded figures engaged in violent, but also absurd, scenes of armed conflict."
(click here to read press release in full)
The second exhibition, starting June 12, will feature 10 up and coming Bangladeshi artists. Information will be posted as it becomes available.
http://www.aicongallery.com/
The current exhibition, "Towards the End", features work from Pakistani artist Adeela Suleman. Born and raised in Karachi, Suleman is currently a member of the Fine Arts department at the Indus valley school of Art & Architecture. According to the gallery's press release:
"The exhibition hinges around a new group of monumental hand-beaten steel reliefs, rendered in the hammered metal-working tradition of Islamic art, depicting beheaded figures engaged in violent, but also absurd, scenes of armed conflict."
(click here to read press release in full)
The second exhibition, starting June 12, will feature 10 up and coming Bangladeshi artists. Information will be posted as it becomes available.
http://www.aicongallery.com/