The following slides are a painting installation titled “Visualizing the Tradition of Folklore.” The artwork is 12 ft x 8.8 ft and the installation also contains 16 smaller 10 in x 8 in paintings on top of the backdrop. The exhibition explores the folklore tradition of storytelling and how stories from India can travel across borders and into unexpected neighborhoods such as Harlem, New York. The miniature paintings host imagined characters from Gujrati folklore but are repurposed to an American context.
Exhibition titled Harlem Perspectives II presented at The Faction Art Projects Gallery, Harlem, New York City
Twenty-one wood panels sized at 10in x 8in, drop cloth sewn together in three parts, acrylic and oil paint. Full installation 12ft x 8.8ft
