EXHIBITION “Making Puja's: Making a Revolution” solo show of artworks by Joan Marie Kelly at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 14th to 22nd April 2017

Artworks by Joan Marie Kelly

Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 14/04/2017 11:00 22/04/2017 19:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION “Making Puja's: Making a Revolution” solo show of artworks by Joan Marie Kelly Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/04/exhibition-making-pujas-making.html Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Venue : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : EXHIBITION “Making Puja's: Making a Revolution” solo show of artworks by Joan Marie Kelly.
The show is inspired from her encounters with the people she meet on the streets of Varanasi and kolkatta 

Curator : Dr. Alka Pande 

About the show - 
Joan Kelly an artist from Singapore , is proud to present her 25 beautiful paintings in the second Indian exhibition at Visual Art Gallery , like her first exhibition “ The Initial encounters”  this show will also portray her encounters  with the people she meet on the streets of Kolkata and Varanasi .  Through her artwork she bears witness to ritual and traditions in Varanasi surviving the assault of “progress” be that environmental degradation or economic depravity, “these Paintings celebrate the people of Varanasi who take out time from their busy lives each day to practice traditions and rituals, in a world where everything is about making money and moving markets, the actions of these people are independent and revolutionary” Says Joan Kelly.

  The paintings celebrate a re-definition of revolutionary and throws light on diasporic adaptations of “traditional ritual” as a gateway between two realities; one in which the participant thinks they are repeating and honoring traditions but which serves as a re-invention of the diasporic community identity, by the traditional formalities in the political public space. Joan Kelly has taken inspiration   from the stories of people she meet on the streets in  India specially in kolkatta for her paintings, She fell in love with the warm welcoming nature of the Bengalis . “  I got to know the people in the neighborhood of Kolkata and I feel in love with them , they were interesting and open minded just like people in Singapore , I interacted with the women on the streets of Kolkatta and listen to their stories and started painting them” Says MS. Kelly.   

About Joan Marie Kellly
Joan Marie Kelly has been living and teaching Art in Singapore since 2005 as a Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.  She has a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Western Connecticut State in the USA. She is a member artist of Blue Mountain Gallery, a prominent and historic gallery in New York City and the heart of the art district. She has pursued a career ofart making, as objects; paintings and ceramics. Yet Asia inspired her to develop a social art practice where she refers to herself as an Urban Ecologist, one who investigates the ecosystem of the city initiating artistic encounters with migrant and marginalized communities. Art became a means to witness the environments and daily lives of communities that are often represented by constructions of the media. She has conducted social art workshops in neighbourhoods of Kolkata, Shenzhen and Singapore, empowering people through creativity, often the experience inspires her paintings. 2017, she is the 2nd prize winner in the Glover Painting Prize, Australia. Her recent solo exhibitions were held in Blue Mountain Gallery New York City, Smith College USA, New Delhi India, Fez Morocco. Recent Biennale’s include, Beijing, Izmir, Turkey, Korea, and Casablanca. A 2012 publication"Zones of Contact: The Public Art of Joan Marie Kelly" includes an essay by New York Art critic David Cohen and 30 colour photographs of her paintings.

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