Jayashree Chakravarty

The Mind is its Own Place
April 11 - May 25, 2002
New York

The New York Times Review

Jayashree Chakravarty
Bose Pacia Modern
508 West 26th Street, Chelsea
Through May 25

Jayashree Chakravarty's second New York show is a logical advance on her first, at the Drawing Center in SoHo. Here as there this New Delhi-based artist gives painting a sculptural dimension in a piece based on a giant paper scroll that stands upright on its side and curves inward like Richard Serra's ''Torqued Ellipses.'' In this case, though, the walls are semi-opaque and covered with words and images that turn a hectic urban landscape into a moral terrain, staked out with one-word directives (''Firmness,'' ''Harmony'') pointing in confusing directions.

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