A photo journal and some ramblings…
Posted in Artist, Embroidery, Surayia Rahman, art, tapestry on Jun 2nd, 2010
…is the artist’s exceptional talent. Surayia Rahman tapestry “The Polo Players” Click for a large view. and behind every Surayia tapestry “another story unfolds“. Click for a large view. Once the image loads, click in the center again to magnify. While photographing The Polo Players today I happened to stack the tapestry back-to-font to prevent [...]
Posted in Artist, Surayia Rahman, art on Jun 1st, 2010
A friend who has a very special collection of Surayia’s artwork gave me the opportunity to photograph a Surayia Rahman painting and several of her exquisite kantha tapestries. The crisscross lines in the painting are typical of Surayia’s work. Click for large view Their cat was a bit wary of me, but I was able to [...]
Posted in Amman Rashid, Artist, Exhibition, art on Mar 27th, 2010
“AADI” hand-crafted ornaments and jewelry by artist designer Amman Rashid from Bangladesh. click for larger view Amman uses copper, brass, silver, beads, semiprecious stones, old/antique bits, old coins, seeds, shells, jute, string, rope…. to create these unique pieces. His solo exhibition opened today at the Heritage Restaurant in Gulshan Dhaka. A couple of his close [...]
Posted in Ameheh Ispahahi, Artist, Bangladesh, Bianca DiBiase, Cathy Stevulak, Dhaka, Embroidery, Gallery, Photography, Surayia Rahman, art, tapestry on Mar 4th, 2010
Kantha Productions LLC’s project on Surayia Rahman’s life and her art has gone live on the Internet today. Their website is up and running, though still in the creation stages. A work-in-progress, with a lot more information and photographs to be added in due time. Do look often, for new content will be added! A [...]
Posted in Artist, Cathy Stevulak, Dhaka, Embroidery, Surayia Rahman, art, tapestry on Feb 12th, 2010
A friend has been involved in a documentary project on the life-story of Bangladesh artist and personality Surayia Rahman – requiring some photographs of Surayia, her art and wonderfully intricate Nakshi Kantha tapestries, photos of the women who embroider the Nakshi Kantha, and other visuals of people associated or who were associated with Surayia. I [...]
Posted in AISD, Amani, Artist, Ashit, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Hindu, Mannat, Music, Ujwala Prabhu, art, ceremony on Jan 30th, 2009
Started out with a “Friday Afternoon Art Fair” at AIS-D… Â Â Â Â ….then to view an exhibition by 11 artists [which includes a couple of friends: Ujwalaand Ashit] who have put up their prints for all to view after a Print Making workshop – the exhibition is called “Mechanical Fantasy” at Britto… Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Smita Srivastava, art on Jan 30th, 2009
Art by Smita Srivastava at a joint India-Bangladesh exhibition at the Chitrak Art Gallery in Dhanmondi Dhaka in January 2009. Some nice new pieces of work! Â Here is a detail from this painting – I love the “landscape-like” feel… Â Great exhibition, enjoyed viewing all the artwork from all 11 artists who participated.
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Photography, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Strobist, Ujwala Prabhu, art, school, street photography on Nov 14th, 2008
Children from USTAV School Dhaka visit Radius Gallery to view the “Jhaal Muri” exhibition, and they all seem to have had a wonderful time. We asked them which pictures were their favourites – very diplomatically they said “ALL”! Apparently they then all sat on the floor and recited poetry and did a few dances, I [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rickshaw, street photography on Nov 9th, 2008
Jhaal Muri artwork on diaplay at Radius Center gallery, the exhibition opened on 8th November. Here is a catalog of the work by the artists, Kuhu, Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala. This is an incomplete listing, more to be added as soon as I get back to Dhaka and can photograph / upload the rest. KUHU [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Photography, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, street photography on Nov 7th, 2008
The Hanging…. As terrible as that sounds, it is not that terrible at all! Except that it did take the mickey out of us getting the sequencing, spacing and positioning the way we wanted it to be. No compromizes. The artwork was hung and taken down 3 times before we got the right look we [...]
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