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THE ANNUAL ERASING BORDERS EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART OF THE DIASPORA 2018
MISSION STATEMENTThe Indo-American Arts Council is a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit, secular service and resource arts organization charged with the mission of promoting and building the awareness, creation, production, exhibition, publication and performance of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America. . The IAAC's focus is to work with artists in North America as well as to facilitate artists from India to exhibit, perform and produce their work in the United States. This exhibition will promote and exhibit the work of artists from the Indian-American community. The exhibition will tour the NYC boroughs, the greater NYC area, the Tri-State area and other parts of Eastern United States
The IAAC supports all artistic disciplines in the classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. We work cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared information, resources and funding.
Our focus is to work with artists and arts organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists and arts organizations from India to exhibit, perform and produce their works here.
IAAC GOALS & OBJECTIVES✧ Build an awareness of Indian artistic
disciplines in North America ✧ Raise enough money to be able to sponsor
artist's activities ✧ Function as a central clearing-house for funds
for artistic disciplines ✧ Present artistic events in the disciplines ✧ Have regular outreach programs to schools and colleges ✧ Encourage young artists to present their work ✧ Foster an exchange of artists and arts related
information between India and the United States.
Bivas Chaudhuri
ERASING BORDERS EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART OF THE DIASPORA 2018
✧ The exhibition, Erasing Borders: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora explores the contributions of artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian Subcontinent. This will be IAAC's 13th annual Erasing Borders exhibition.
✧ The first, 2004 Erasing Borders Exhibition, curated by Sundaram Tagore, focused solely on artists of the Indian Diaspora. Due to its enormous success, the IAAC decided to schedule annual exhibitions of contemporary Indian art. Since then, the annual IAAC Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art has been curated by Vijay Kumar
✧ Many Indian artists went abroad after India's independence from British rule. These artists grappled with dual aesthetic concerns (modernity versus tradition), and with the complex issue of identity. Diaspora artists had to create an authentic artistic language possessing Indian aesthetic components in order to be taken seriously by critics, as well as to reconcile issues associated with being minorities. Today's diaspora artists are scattered across the country and are more socio-economically and religiously diverse than their predecessors. These artists are working to make themselves heard in an art world that is at once more competitive and more receptive to non-Western art than ever before
THE EXHIBITION
The Indo-American Arts Council’s 13th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian art of the Diaspora! will feature work by 28 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian
subcontinent. This group of multinational and intergenerational artists, chosen by Vijay Kumar, reflects a broad range of life experiences and aesthetic values. The artists interpret diverse subject
matter—figurative, abstract and conceptual in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and installation. The resulting works often meld Indian
and Western ideas about color, form and subject.
Twenty million people of Indian origin shifted countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. Implicit in the term Diaspora are the concepts of change and adaptation. Cultural dislocation can produce
unexpected and powerful results. Subject matter is often drawn from the country of origin, while many of the artistic decisions and political concerns come from the artists’ newfound situations. This exhibition seeks to transcend the borders that confine and control preconceived definitions of Indian
and Western art.
VISUAL ART STAFF
Executive Director and founding member of the Indo-American Arts Council, Aroon is passionate about its mission to build an awareness of Indian artists and artistic disciplines (performing, visual, literary and folk arts in North America) as well as nurturing and promoting emerging artists from the Indian subcontinent !
President of the Indo-American Arts Council Board of Directors, Aroon sits on the Boards of the Queens Museum of Art, The Lark Play Development Company and the Museum Trustees Association.. Aroon also sits on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Architecture's Jugaad Urbanism, Hindu American Seva Charities, Light of India Awards, Special Advisor to the Kandy International Film Festival, Artefacting Mumbai, the Advisory Board of Immigrant Artists & Scholars in New York (IASNY) and several other art and charity organizations, and has been on the juries of the Emmys, beauty contests, grants, art, film and theatre contests. A passionate patron and participant of the arts, she is involved in various capacities - as a patron / subscriber / member of the International Women's Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Metropolitan Museum, Theatre Development Fund (TDF), New York Women in Film & TV (NYWIFT), IFP, Lincoln Center Theatre, National Organization of Women (NOW), Museum Trustees Association (MTA)
VISUAL ART STAFFVijay Kumar has curated all the annual Erasing Borders exhibitions bar one. Vijay studied art at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi, and at Pratt Graphics Center in NYC.
He has showcased his drawings, prints and paintings in the U.S. and abroad. Vijay has worked extensively in printmaking techniques and currently teaches etching at Manhattan Graphics Center in NYC, where he was a founding member.
His work is featured in many permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library (all in NYC), the William Benton Museum of Art in Storrs, Connecticut, the National Gallery of Art in New Delhi, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK.
In 2002, his work received the highest prize in an exhibition of prints by the Royal Society or Painters and Printmakers in London.
GLIMPSES OF ARTISTS OVER THE DECADE
Chitra Ganesh Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar Alka Mukerji
Anu Thadani M.D. Tokon Claudia Dias
GLIMPSES OF ARTISTS OVER THE DECADE
Vijay Kumar
Nidhi Jalan
Haresh Lalvani
Rasika Reddy Roshani Thakore Shobha Menon
Nidhi Jalan
Participating Artists in 2016Anna BradfieldAnujan EzhikodeArun Prem, Bivas ChaudhuriBoloDelna DasturGeorge OomenIndrani Nayar GalMansoora HassanMD TokonNipun MandaNorbert Gonsalvesm
Padmini MongiaParul MehraQuinza Najm Pooja GuptaRadhika MathewsRahul MehraReeta Gidwani KarmarkarRenuka KhannaRochana DubeySejal KrishnanTara SabharwalUday K Dhar
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS IN 2016Anna BradfieldTitle: BrazilMedium: Mixed media collage Dimension: 18" x 24" Year: 2014 Price: $3000
Anujan EzhikodeTitle: wind #2
Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 60 " x 36 "
Year: 2015 Price: $1500
Arun PremTitle: Grandma’s true stories Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimension: 40 ”x 60 "Year: 2015Price: $12500
Bivas ChaudhuriTitle: Yellow Piece
Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 24” x 24”
Year: 2014 Price: $2000
Delna DasturTitle: Grit
Medium: Mixed media Dimension: 40" x 30"
Year: 2014 Price: $5000
BoloTitle: Ghost of Empire Medium: Acrylic on wood Dimension: 48" x 36"Year: 2015 Price: $7000
George OomenTitle: Climate Change
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 12” x 42”Year: 2015
Price: $8000Indrani Nayar-GallTitle: How to write a myth detail Medium: two-plate A la poupée relief and wood intaglio on paper, carbon transfer,Dimension: 21.5" x 22"Year: 2015Price: $2000
Gautam Rao
MD TokonTitle: The Land I Still Love
Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 84" x 56"
Year: 2015 Price: $12000
Mansoora HassanTitle: The Diologue Project 01 Medium: Digital photography
Dimension: 8" x 11"Year: 2015
Price: $450
Norbert GonsalvesTitle: Despair and HopeMedium: Encaustic on wood panel, Charred sari fabric, glass bangles Dimension: 16” x 20”Year: 2015Price: $600
Nipun MandaTitle: Interplay 1 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimension: 24” x 18”Year: 2015 Price: $ 3000
Padmini MongiaTitle: Building Matters 4
Medium: Ink and India ink on canvas.
Dimension: 8" X 24" Year: 2015
Price: $5000
Qinza NajmTitle: Treasure of Love Medium: Acrylic on canvasDimension: 48" x 36"Year: 2015 Price: $4000
Parul MehraTitle: Which World do we Live inMedium: Digital PhotographDimension: 16” x 20”Year: 2015Price: $500
Pooja GuptaTitle: Tell me I'M Pretty Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 27" x 17"Year: 2015
Price: $650
Radhika Mathews Title: Contained/Uncontained Medium: Acrylic and Block Print on Handmade PaperDimension: 6" x 16 "Year: 2014 Price: $750
Reeta Gidwani KarmarkarTitle: Shutter Shadows ApartheidThe cruel, vicious oppression and
segregation of non-whites in South Africa. Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 26" x 36" Year: 2015
Price: $1,000
Rahul MehraTitle: Sarvottam Quality CinemaMedium: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 48” x 36”Year: 2015Price: $6,000
Rochana DubeyTitle: Is it really You or is it Me
Medium: Acrylics and modelling paste on canvas
Dimension: 48" x 48"Year: 2015
Price: $3999
Sejal KrishnanTitle: Oh Lord let there be Light Medium: Latex and acrylic paintDimension: 30” x 36” Year: 2015Price: $600
Renuka KhannaTitle: Our Daughters 1Medium: Digital giclee prints Dimension: 18" x 24" Year: 2015Price: $750
Reet Das
Tara SabharwalTitle: City Stories
Medium: Ink, watercolor and collage on paper
Dimension: 15" x 11"Year: 2015
Price: $8500
Uday KdharTitle: Chahe Jiyenge
Medium: oil on canvasDimension: 24" x 30"
Year: 2014Price: $1000
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jonathan HollanderVice President and Co-Founder
Talat AnsariLegal Counsel
Ambassador Prakash Shah
Aroon ShivdasaniPresident and Executive Director
ADVISORY BOARDDilip Advani Veena AdvaniShabana Azmi
Robert BrowningGerson da Cunha Uma da Cunha Mahesh Dattani Vishakha Desai Wynn Handman
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Deepa Mehta
(late) Maqbool Fida Husain
Mallika Sarabhai Ambassador Neelam Deo
Tino Puri Chandrika Tandon
Yakub Mathew Priyanka Mathew Dr. Sunil Kothari
Javed Akhtar (late) Ismail Merchant
Dinyar Devitre James Gara
Dr. Manjula Bhansal
Nari Pohani Rajika Puri Zeyba Rahman Indur Shivdasani Sundaram Tagore Shashi Tharoor Madhur Jaffrey Mira NairSalman Rushdie Dr. Murali Doriaswamy Jane Gullong
EXHIBITION SPACESElizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Project Space
! Tabla Rasa Art GalleryCharles B Wang Center
Aicon Gallery
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Manhattanville College Art Gallery
Hammond Museum
South Asian American Art Festival
Dowd Gallery
Art6
Queens Museum of Arts
The Gallery at Penn College
The Guild Art Gallery
Jorgensen Gallery
Bronx Charter School for the Arts
Visual Arts Centre of New Jersey
Twelve Gates Art Gallery
Consulate General of India, New York
Crossing Art Queens
Flushing Town Hall
Williamsburg Art and Historical Centre
PAST SPONSORS Crossing Art
TV Asia
Masala Junction.com
Filmy
Lassi with Lavina
Bronx Charter School for the Arts
Queens Museum of Art
Freelance US Media
New York State Council for the arts( NYSCA)
Harrice Miller Entertainment
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)
India Abroad
Rediff.com
Pennsylvania College of Technology
DOWD Gallery
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Navila Group
FUNDSThe Indo-American Arts Council relies on corporate support, private family foundations, and individual donors. IAAC also relies on a bevy of volunteers and personal contacts to present these annual Exhibitions. Costs for the exhibition, including transportation of the artwork, insurance, gallery rental, advertising & publicity, opening and closing receptions, press packages, preparation, hanging of artwork, brochure design, and printing will be shared by participating galleries. Gallery openings and closings are coordinated by the IAAC. We send out mailings to our entire list , upload the information on our website, place it on facebook, twitter and Youtube to spread the word to support our artists.
MARKETING AND INTERPRETATION
✧ Utilize its growing listserv (e-technology) to update its patrons.
✧ Send out postcards, brochures, take advertisements in NYC-based mainstream, ethnic, and artist-related media outlets.
✧ Coordinate with other arts organizations, artists, and partner organizations to support the Exhibition.
✧ At the exhibition, audience members will receive a catologue with listings of the artists, artwork, and contact information for contacting the artists. There will also be postcards on a table to gather audience's contact information, and advertisements for future IAAC events.
✧ The IAAC will utilize E-technology to disseminate information about the Exhibitions, the artists, and the artwork being displayed.
Reet D
as
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY✧ IAAC partners with select organizations whose
objectives align with those of the Erasing Borders exhibition thereby engaging and nurturing long-term mutually beneficial and culturally rich relationships
✧ As the exhibition continues to grow, it becomes an increasingly formidable marketing platform for partners and organizations to garner targeted exposure
✧ Provides access to the Indian Diaspora in the entire East Coast market
✧ Opportunity for an international brand to establish and entrench itself amongst North American consumers
✧ Targeted marketing to specific income, occupation and gender based groups
✧ Association with brands of a distinguished caliber and recognizable talent who regularly support and participate in the festival
✧ Recognition for involvement and support in developing the arts and culture of New York City
✧ Reach an IAAC mailing list of 45,000 arts aficionados
Tarik Currim
bhoy
SPONSORSHIP & BRANDING
Marketing benefits associated with the Exhibition include: ✧ Effective brand development and
visibility ✧ Showcases social and community
responsibility ✧ On-site corporate hospitality and benefits ✧ Networking with co-sponsors, developing
corporate ✧ relationships ✧ Media exposure ✧ Signage ✧ Promotional presence on website and
collateral materials ✧ Interaction with members of the US and
Indian art industries ✧ Right to promote / co-brand
Anujan Ezhikode
SPONSORSHIP LEVELSSponsorship levels range from $10,000- $250,000. Details on specific benefits can be provided upon request. Sponsorship packages may be tailored to specific sponsor requirements
✧ Diamond Exclusive Sponsorship – $250,000
✧ Emerald Sponsorship -$150,000 ✧ Ruby Sponsorship - $100,000 ✧ Sapphire Sponsorship – $50,000 ✧ Amethyst Sponsorship – $25,000 ✧ Topaz Sponsorship – $10,000
Tara Sabharwal
ERASING BORDERS EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART OF
THE DIASPORA 2018
Indo-American Arts Council517 East 87th St, Suite 1B, New York, NY10128.
Phone: 212 594 3685Website: www.iaac.us, E-mail: [email protected]
