Ajit Chauhan, 20 castanets
August 1 - September 12, 2020
Opening August 1, 12-8pm
Et al., 620 Kearny Street
*by appointment only
20 castanets is taken from Barbara Guest’s poem Sleep is 20—a poem about counting sheep or moving from a half consciousness to full. When insignificant things take on significance. The sky wasn’t blue it was September blue.
Dorothea Lasky said “To be a maker is to be down in the muck of making and not always to fly so high above the muck.”
To be down in The Muck of Making.
Much of the work resembles symmetrical inkblots. Tests of perception that were then analyzed and interpreted for meaning…
from some dim unformed sense into significance—September blue
--AC
Ajit Chauhan (b. 1981) lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco, California. His work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, White Columns NY, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, UC Davis Museum, the Grimm Museum in Berlin, the SONS Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium, Jack Hanley Gallery, Annarumma Gallery, SVIT Praha, and recently at the KMAC Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. He is this year’s recipient of the Tosa Studio Award.