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April 27, 2007- June 2, 2007
Reception: April 27, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Mequitta Ahuja
BravinLee programs
526 W 26th StBravinLee programs is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of works on paper by Mequitta Ahuja. Mequitta’s work is charged with issues of personal and ethnic identity. Both African American and East Indian, her formally hybrid works embody her multiple cultural positions. As Mequitta says, she views “the position of the margin as a creative opportunity, which is my response to my own social lack of fit.”
The figures in her works operate from the same position. Mequitta’s emblematic images of the individual, often the artist herself, laboring, roaming, imagining, and presenting herself in her own terms, depict identity as a real, mythic, and metaphoric concern. Expressed through imagery of the human in relation to and merging with animals and the land, the artist explores the notion of the hybrid or non-autonomous being. Her works are images of culturally complex female power and authority in tension with an alienating social position. They speak to the process of racialization and explore ideas of identity, ethnic belonging, and societal perception of race and color.
Mequitta received an MFA from UIC in 2003 and was mentored by Kerry James Marshall. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. She was chosen for the November 2005 12x12, New artists/New works at Chicago's MCA. Her work is currently included in the Painters and Poets exhibition at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, Kansas as well as in the inaugural exhibit of the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum; the exhibition, Global Feminisms was co-curated by Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly. She is currently an artist in residence at The Core Program in Houston, Texas.
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