'Organics' at Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia

A group show featuring Works six South Asian artists takes place at Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia.

Amina Ahmed, Delna Dastur, Ina Kaur, Nitin Mukul, Antonio Puri, and Gurpran Rau are the six participating artists. Amina Ahmed, a New York based artist, is a member of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY. She presents an installation that explores pattern and measurement, deftly working with the fivefold symmetry. The artist explores the way her piece of art ‘organically unfolds and re-folds tracing the steps of an underlying path’. The recurring basic elements in her work are geometry, repetition and rhythm.

The defining principal of the work on view is: ‘Rhythm is the pulse or the breath that invariably permeates all living things’ and ‘manifests itself in the music of the universe’. She has showcased her work at India Art Summit in 2011 and Slick Paris Art Fairs and at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in NYC, most recently.

Delna Dastur did her BA (Art History) from Wellesley College and MFA from American University. She is a faculty member at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and The Art League of Alexandria. The richly saturated colors of her work are inspired by nature. In them, the geometric and mechanical shapes often tend to blur the line between the abstract art form and its ensuing organic inspiration.

Ina Kaur, based in New Delhi, currently heads the drawing & printmaking division at the University of Tampa. Her deliberations on art have been featured in several national and international exhibitions and are also included in private and permanent collections. A recipient of numerous important Professional Grants & Awards for Academic Excellence, she has left an indelible mark as an artist of immense talent and skill.

Her work broadly focuses on identity trapped in the continuum of cross-cultural negotiation. The three elements that have formed a new perspective for the artist in conceptualizing and visualizing her art practice and identity are localism, globalism and hybridity. A site-specific mixed media installation by her is included in this exhibition.