Shalu Juneja is an Indian artist who works across diverse media such as charcoal sketching, painting and sculptures. Her art delves into human beings and nature, especially the female form and has a figurative style. She loves to experiment with different techniques and the spontaneous use of mark making and various textures on the canvas.
Indra Persad-Milowe is a visual artist living and working in Salem, Massachusetts. She works primarily with acrylic paints on canvas and her work focuses on personal experiences and reliving her childhood memories while growing up in Trinidad in the ’50s and ’60s. Her paintings reflect the many cultural traditions of Trinidad and Tobago including traditional Hindu ceremonies, African folklore as well as the natural beauty of the islands.
Author Fereshteh Daftari’s newest book Persia Reframed presents Iranian art to a Western audience with a fresh, panoramic perspective that will hopefully lead to greater discussion and understanding of artistic movements and styles from the region.
In a region that is commonly framed within a certain socio-political context, there are female Iranian abstractionists such as Monir Farmanfamaian and Behjat Sadr who were able to cross the necessary boundaries to have their work noticed in both the East and the West.
The 2019 Whitney Biennial which showcases contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, began in 1932 and continues to be regarded as one of the leading art shows to discover new talent. This year it includes works from several artists of Asian descent highlighting the range of diversity within the contemporary art world.
For his second solo show at Sundaram Tagore New York, Beijing-based artist Zheng Lu’s second solo show at Sundaram Tagore New York is a continuing exploration of water through sculptures and mixed-media installations centered around themes of water as he contemplates themes of existence, change, self-reflection and the passage of time.
Mohammed Ahmed of Casa Magazines in New York City’s West Village neighborhood shares his insight and trepidation about the future of print.
Indian-Australian musician Amritha Shakti explains the purpose and meaning for her new song and which embodies the representation she craved as a young girl of South Asian heritage.
In our Stockists Series, Francesca Spiller of Milan’s Reading Room offers insight into the independent magazine scene in her city.
Japanese-American artist Ei Arakawa’s work at the High Line Park in New York City reinterprets Gustave Courbet’s still life paintings to present them for a modern day audience en plein air.
