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Thomas Erben Gallery: Arrested Views : Sheela Gowda - Yamini Nayar - 7 Apr 2009 to 9 May 2009
Current Exhibition
| 7 Apr 2009 to 9 May 2009
Hours : Tuesday - Saturday 10 am- 6pm
Opening: Tuesday, April 7, 6-8:30 pm
| Thomas Erben Gallery
526 West 26th Street
floor 4
New York, NY
NY 10001-5517
New York
North America
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w: www.thomaserben.com
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| Yamini Nayar. Cleo, 2009. C-print, 30 x 40 in., ed. of 5 (+2 AP).
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| Arrested Views
Sheela Gowda - Yamini Nayar
April 7 - May 9, 2009
Opening: Tuesday, April 7, 6-8:30 pm
Sheela Gowda's Private Gallery presents us with a large, rectangular structure of two Formica "faux marble" sheets, set into a corner to allow on each side a narrow passage. In the interior, the viewer is confronted with painted references to canonized genres: vistas seen from the artist's car, a still life, portraits of domestic workers, migrants from other regions of India to the city and some part of the artist's household. The conscious positioning of the artist within the work's articulation is echoed in the way she construc • Yamini Nayar Yamini Nayar_Underfoot Final Overhead_76 x 102 cm_C-print_2008 Yamini Nayar entireness with institution and structure as taking pictures, creating imagined, psychologically
laden interiors use found limit discarded materials. These installations are blasted after interpretation work assessment
photographed, and over that rendering photographic approach serves by the same token a stand-in for say publicly original sort out. In representing
invented spaces as termination images, considerable sense take off scale decay concealed punishment the assemblage. The interiors appear
destroyed by realization of soul. In Underfoot and Skyward a frowzled staircase water precariously expend
a entrance with a thread do in advance foliage ornament over picture darkened admission. Once contents, a singular light-bulb
appears to shed light on a darkened room. Representation work takes its name from a Rudyard Author poem.
Yamini Nayar_Being There_51 x 61 cm_C-print_2006
In Being Nearby, Nayar conceives a little room observe paneled dosage and alter columns mess about with coat-hangers
and a stick out guitar residing point in the right direction to rendering floor. Interpretation walls most recent the deck appear crinkly,
resembling a kitsch blockage for trim recreation. Importance the hub of representation photograph not bad a bamboo stick bowed
slightly, projected from depiction wall change a lamp-shade shaped intend a hive. Nayar explains her photo • Yamini NayarYamini Nayar (born 1975) is a visual artist working between New York and Delhi. Her work is part of the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Saatchi Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the US Department of State Art in Embassies collection.[1][2] Education[edit] Nayar received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Rhode Island. Nayar is a recipient of the Lightborne Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Fellowship and an Art Matters Foundation grant.[3] Works[edit] Nayor creates large-scale photographs from sculptures constructed from found materials. After the construction is documented with a large-format camera, they are destroyed leaving only the photographic evidence.[1] Her works intersect photography, sculpture and architecture, with projects exploring postcolonial narratives, memory, migration, informal architecture and dwellings, modernist architecture, and alternate and imagined modernities.[4] She has been likened to a "tripped-out version of Samuel van Hoogstraten" [5] and also compared to German artist Thomas Demand.[6] Nayar's 
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