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On view will be a new installation Heliotropes (2005-2006), a collection of linear forms, hand sewn and molded from latex in a playful suspension, occupies considerable air space in the north gallery, and appears to swim towards the light pouring in from the windows. On view in the second space is Container and Content (2000-2005), an organic installation in which straw and mud are pressed onto a steel mesh to create nests or vessels of life. Also on view is a large five color woodcut, I am no one to tell you what not to do (2006).
Ranjani Shettar’s work, inspired by nature and drawn from experience, combines movement in form and content in which lines sculpted in space are invested with the attributes of the employed materials. Traversing her installation one experiences their exceptional beauty and fortitude while gently becoming aware of their all so human spirit. One observes this in the resilience of the pods in their search for light in Heliotropes, or the sense of regeneration imbued in Container and Content.
This year Ranjani Shettar was selected as 2006 International Artist in Residence at ARTPACE, San Antonio, Texas. Her works are currently on view at ARTPACE through May 2006 in an exhibition curated by Douglas Fogle. Currently her work, Vasanta, is on view in Landscape Confection at The Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, a show curated by Helen Molesworth which traveled from the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Her work will be on view in the upcoming Zones of Contact, XV Sydney Biennale, Australia opening in June 2006.
Ranjani Shettar was born in 1977 in Bangalore, India and received her Bachelors (1998) and Masters (2000) in Sculpture from Chitrakala Parishath (Institute for Fine Arts), Bangalore. Recent exhibitions include: J'en rêve (Dream on) at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France (2005); Out There, at the Sainsbury Center of Visual Arts, Norwich, UK (2005) and Transition and Transformation at Fine Art Galleries, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (2005). In 2003 her works were exhibited in How Latitudes Become Forms, Curated by Philippe Vergne with Douglas Fogle and Olukemi Ilesanmi for The Walker Center, Minneapolis.
Ranjani Shettar lives and works in Bangalore, India.
For further information please call the gallery at 212-673-3096 or visit www.talwargallery.com
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