Chicago, Illinois - Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of 'Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices,' a group show with art in a variety of media by 23 women.
Juried by artist Pritika Chowdhry, this exhibit includes works of artists from diverse locations and heritages, whose creations embody individual acts of memorialization and remembrance.
The artists in this show have each taken on subject matters that are difficult and perhaps even controversial, but their artistic practices show a critical engagement with their specific material and a commitment to building bridges across cultural and national barriers through the visual arts. The works reveal a broad range of engagements with memory - some are about collective memories of large-scale traumas, some are about familial or generational memories, and others are about individual memories. These acts of remembrance reference and create connections between the geopolitics of India, Korea, Latvia, Sri Lanka, Germany, America, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, and Trinidad, among others.
Participating artists are Nandini Chirimar, Sun H. Choi, Anda Dubinskis, Frances Ferdinands, Karen Frostig, Sharon Harper, Katherine Harriott, Juarez Hawkins, Tehniyet Hussain, Shalalae Jamil, Naomi Kasumi, Susan Lenz, Judith G. Levy, Regina Mamou, Shaghayegh Mazloomi, Samanta Batra Mehta, Neli Ouzounova, Darlene Wesenberg Rzezotarski, Karina Schafer, Romy Scheroder, Pallavi Sharma, and Kari Souders.
The Artist Reception is on September 4 from 6 to 9 p.m., and works will be up through October 10, 2009.
For more information go to:
http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=group&gallery=transdiasporic2009&pic=1
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