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Rajkamal Kahlon
Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, September 25, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.703.9505
The Brooklyn-based painter Rajkamal Kahlon investigates racial and colonial authority by engaging with historical texts, for example the massive, 1200-page Cassell's Illustrated History of India, an ethnography published in 1875. She often actually tears out pages and paints over them, using violent, clashing colors to create images of the human body turned grotesque through traumatic encounters with colonialism, military rule, and torture. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world, including the Oakland Museum of California; arttransponder, Berlin; and in New York at the Queens Museum of Art, White Box, and ApexArt. She earned her MFA from CCA.
Cosponsored by the Painting/Drawing Program
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