Solo show ‘Away From The Watcher’ opens at Hales Gallery NYC, June 6
Detail from Ancestral Visit, 2023. Archival digital print, 59 x 42 inches.
Opening reception: Thursday 6 June, 6 – 8pm
7 June – 12 July 2024
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Hales is delighted to announce ‘Away From the Watcher’, Chitra Ganesh’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In the first exhibition dedicated to Ganesh’s print works, the show brings together linoleum cuts, digital prints, and screen prints made over the past decade, highlighting this integral strand of her practice. Ganesh is currently featured in the Sydney Biennale (through 10 June 2024) and will be included in the Bangkok Biennale opening in October. Her first comprehensive monograph will be published by Distanz this summer, along with a major multi-disciplinary public commission by Art at Amtrak in Penn Station New York and Moynihan Hall opening this July.
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The exhibition takes its title, ‘Away From the Watcher’, from a piece in the four-part series ‘Architects of the Future’ (2014). The works on view draw upon rich histories of politically engaged printmaking and graphic art, evoking a lineage of artists, such as Elizabeth Catlett, Emory Douglas, Franz Masereel, and Nancy Spero. Complex layered worlds are created through distinct processes, materiality, and textural surface. Digital prints in rich colors speak to popular culture and comic book imagery whereas black and white linocuts nod to the medium’s historic use within social and political movements. In imagined universes, Ganesh depicts a time outside of our socio political and geopolitical sphere, drawing the viewer into a space for personal and collective discovery. Through the lens of history, literature and science fiction, Ganesh considers a longer arc of time where non-linear narratives are set in expanded futures.