"SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art presents a landmark exhibition of modern and contemporary art from India from February 25 through September 4, 2011. Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India is drawn entirely from eleven private collections in the San Francisco Bay Area."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 76 K)
"The best way to approach works of art today is through a certain distance and disinterestedness since any attention, from whatever sphere or angle, only seems to add to the value of the work."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 84 K)
by Chris Wright
SAN JOSE, California (October 9, 2009)—In honor of its 40th Anniversary, the San Jose Museum of Art yesterday unveiled new commissions by two nationally known California artists. Most Secret Butterfly by Tam Van Tran, whose work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, marks the first time that the Museum's Council of 100 has commissioned a new work of art. Blind Faith by Bari Kumar is the first piece by an Indian-American artist to enter the Museum's collection and the first of Kumar's fabric pieces to be publicly exhibited in the United States.
Continue Reading (PDF 73 K)
SAN JOSE, CA.- In honor of its 40th Anniversary, the San Jose Museum of Art yesterday unveiled new commissions by two nationally known California artists. Most Secret Butterfly by Tam Van Tran, whose work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, marks the first time that the Museum's Council of 100 has commissioned a new work of art. Blind Faith by Bari Kumar is the first piece by an Indian-American artist to enter the Museum's collection and the first of Kumar's fabric pieces to be publicly exhibited in the United States. The two new additions to the Museum's collection of modern and contemporary art by prominent West Coast artists were unveiled at a members' preview yesterday and will be on view to the general public as of today.
Continue Reading (PDF 147 K)
"Young Indian artists living abroad are making a splash with their east meets west vision of the world..."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 69 K)
"It is difficult to talk about the life-size paintings of Bari Kumar without sounding glib."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 39 K)
"Earthcare Books and Resource Centre at 10 Middleton Street is holding a
exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Thomas Patrick Kiernan of Ireland."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 42 K)
"A high-spirited, nuanced selection stirred up venues old and new at the latest Sydney Biennale."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 1.8 MB)
"The South Asian artists in this show are so far out of the box they rattle the place."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 607 K)
"London: Grosvenor Vadehra is presenting an exhibition of new works by Californian-
based Indian artist Bari Kumar in his first solo exhibition in the UK."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 42 K)
"An exhibition of new work by Bari Kumar "
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 20 K)
"Bari Kumar's figures engage with structures of power and authority..."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 1.2 MB)
"A diverse collection of artworks provides a new assessment of the subject of religion and spirituality in art."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 33 K)
"Kumar is an atelier-style figurative painter, a classist in style and temperament, whose allegorical figures flaunt baroque folds of flesh that are sensual to the point of grotesque and often strike ritualized poses that inhabit the nexus of religion and science..."
Continue Reading (PDF 506 K)
"India-born, Los Angeles-based Bari Kumar forces us to confront the violence of the world head-on in his macabre, surrealist paintings, which teem with dismembered bodies, haunting eyes and serpentine imagery."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 641 K)
"With their no-frills realist style and theatrical air, Bari Kumar's paintings have the graphic
pull of film posters, though the films advertised seem composed entirely of symbols."
-more-
Continue Reading (PDF 14 K)
Karin Miller-Lewis looks at the recent work of a few South Asian expatriate artists and discovers a common effort towards redefining individual and cultural identity.
Continue Reading (PDF 1.3 MB)
"Integrating text, figures, and symbolism from Western and Eastern cultures into his paintings, Bari Kumar artfully refers to his life experience as well as the global trend toward cultural pluralism..."
Continue Reading (PDF 355 K)