Art in America Review: “Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora” at the Asia Society New York
Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora” was the first exhibition since the Queens Museum’s “Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now” (2005) to focus on works by United States-based artists with origins in the various countries of South Asia. Organized by artist and curator Jaishri Abichandani, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center curator Lawrence-Minh Davis, and Asia Society Museum director Boon Hui Tan, the show included works by nineteen artists, most of whom are based in New York and were born in the 1960s or ’70s. “Lucid Dreams” was hardly comprehensive, but it was not intended to be. Its strength was in representing a selection of artists who put forth an array of materials and aesthetic practices.
Chitra Ganesh, Gopa in the Garden, 2012.