Sangram Majumdar: Offspring
SHFAP presents two exhibitions in October. In our front gallery, we present OFFSPRING, an exhibition of recent paintings by Sangram Majumdar.
In this new body of work, Majumdar returns to working with the figure as a primary motif. These paintings and works on paper evolve Majumdar鈥檚 interest in exploring the hidden, the peripheral, and the in-between. They purposely resist direct interpretation, inviting us to slow down, embrace ambiguity, and trust our senses.
The works began as much by trying to give form to the political anxiety in this country as by watching his daughter learn to walk. This striding gesture reminds one of ancient sculptures, Muybridge鈥檚 photographs, Giacometti鈥檚 sculptures or DON'T WALK signs.
Majumdar鈥檚 new paintings are built from drawings, and collages made from watching bits of home videos. He works intuitively, revising entire paintings multiple times. This process lends his works a tangible sense of simultaneity. Frequently he employs conventions from the representational and abstract modes of painting in eastern and western art. He is working to synthesize his own complex relationship with history and a renewed investment in figuration, both symbolic and personal.
This is Majumdar鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. In the course of that, he has traversed a broad pictorial range, from highly accomplished representational paintings to increasingly abstract images all the while grounded in direct observation. John Yau wrote about Majumdar鈥檚 work, 鈥淚t seems to me that Majumdar is after that moment of seeing which occurs just before we name the object, event or experience and begin looking for the next thing, whatever it is鈥� I see this as a risky gambit as well as a conscious challenge to a media-besotted world that revels in names and naming, as if somehow everything can be accounted for, safely categorized and subsequently copied.鈥�
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SHFAP presents two exhibitions in October. In our front gallery, we present OFFSPRING, an exhibition of recent paintings by Sangram Majumdar.
In this new body of work, Majumdar returns to working with the figure as a primary motif. These paintings and works on paper evolve Majumdar鈥檚 interest in exploring the hidden, the peripheral, and the in-between. They purposely resist direct interpretation, inviting us to slow down, embrace ambiguity, and trust our senses.
The works began as much by trying to give form to the political anxiety in this country as by watching his daughter learn to walk. This striding gesture reminds one of ancient sculptures, Muybridge鈥檚 photographs, Giacometti鈥檚 sculptures or DON'T WALK signs.
Majumdar鈥檚 new paintings are built from drawings, and collages made from watching bits of home videos. He works intuitively, revising entire paintings multiple times. This process lends his works a tangible sense of simultaneity. Frequently he employs conventions from the representational and abstract modes of painting in eastern and western art. He is working to synthesize his own complex relationship with history and a renewed investment in figuration, both symbolic and personal.
This is Majumdar鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. In the course of that, he has traversed a broad pictorial range, from highly accomplished representational paintings to increasingly abstract images all the while grounded in direct observation. John Yau wrote about Majumdar鈥檚 work, 鈥淚t seems to me that Majumdar is after that moment of seeing which occurs just before we name the object, event or experience and begin looking for the next thing, whatever it is鈥� I see this as a risky gambit as well as a conscious challenge to a media-besotted world that revels in names and naming, as if somehow everything can be accounted for, safely categorized and subsequently copied.鈥�
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