Summer 2021 Madison Avenue by Sundaram Tagore Gallery

SUMMER 2021 MADISON AVENUE

October Cloud 4.4.7, 2018, ink and dye on aluminum composite, 48 x 48 inches/122 x 122 cm 4

MIYA ANDO

Miya Ando is an American artist known for creating metal paintings that evoke both ephemerality and permanence. A descendant of Bizen sword makers, Ando spent her childhood among Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan, and later, in California. She combines the traditional techniques of her ancestry with modern industrial technology, skillfully transforming sheets of metal into abstract paintings suffused with color. Working across two and three dimensions, Ando’s oeuvre includes abstract painting and sculpture as well as large-scale public pieces that reflect the transitory essence of life. Miya Ando has a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended Yale University and Stanford University to study Buddhist iconography and imagery. She apprenticed with the master metalsmith Hattori Studio in Japan, followed by a residency at Northern California’s Public Art Academy. Ando’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Noguchi Museum, New York; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Georgia; The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York; and the American University Museum, Washington D.C. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Bronx Museum and Queens Museum of Art, New York; and The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York. In 2015, her work was icluded in Frontiers Reimagined at the 56th Venice Biennale. Ando’s work is in the public collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Luft Museum in Germany, and in numerous private collections. She has been the Grants and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award. Ando has produced several public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall sculpture in London built from World Trade Center steel to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, for which she was nominated for a DARC Award in Best Light Art Installation, as well as for The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by Philip Johnson, which is now a museum and National Historic Landmark. Born in Los Angeles, 1973 | Lives and works in New York 5

Kasumi January 2.2.1, 2018, dye, pigment, resin and urethane on aluminum, 24 x 24 inches/61 x 61 cm 7

RICARDO MAZAL Ricardo Mazal, one of Mexico’s most prominent contemporary artists, is known for his lush abstract oil paintings in which he explores spiritual themes. He is perhaps best known for his near decade-long investigations into the sacred burial rituals of diverse cultures, from the Mayan tomb of The Red Queen in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, to the Buddhist prayer flags of Bhutan. These studies yielded a succession of large, multidisciplinary bodies of work reflective of the artist’s observations. However, his most recent series, Violeta and Prague, are imbued with personal narrative, as Mazal evolves from witness to author. Ricardo Mazal’s work has been shown widely in galleries and museums throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe. Since 2000, he has had fourteen museum exhibitions in Mexico and the United States, including five retrospectives at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (2000), the Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de México (2006), the Museo de Arte de Querétaro (2009), the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez (2010) and the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe. Thematic exhibitions have been held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2006), the Museo Nacional de Antropología (2004-2005) and the Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla, among others. In 2015 Mazal’s work was included in Frontiers Reimagined at the 56th Venice Biennale. Mazal’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas, Mexico; Maeght Foundation, Paris; Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico; Cirque du Soleil, Montreal; the Peninsula Hotel, Shanghai; and Deutsche Bank, New York and Germany.

Born in Mexico City, 1950 | Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York

Praga 4, 2019, oil on linen, 80 x 87 inches/203.2 x 221 cm

Zeit - Fliessend 5, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 56 x 40 inches/142.2 x 101.6 cm 12

UDO NÖGER Udo Nöger creates luminous monochrome paintings that capture light, movement and energy expressed in highly minimalistic compositions. Nöger, who grew up in Enger, a town in Westphalia, Germany, emigrated to the U.S. in 1990 on a scholarship. In the earlier part of his career, he was known for his expressive figurative paintings that explore the dimensionality of color. These raw, mixed-media works were often populated by mysterious, archaic figures and symbolically charged imagery inspired by his travels. By the mid-nineties, Nöger began to focus his attention exclusively on the interaction between light, space and color, moving away from the more aggressive style of canvasses he was producing in favor of a minimal aesthetic that distilled his concept to its simplest form. His desire to go deeper into his ideas coupled with the boredom he experienced always working on the front of a canvas prompted the artist to go beyond the surface both materially and conceptually. To produce works that appear to emanate light from within, Nöger employs an almost architectural approach. The paintings comprise three layers of canvas mounted on stretchers set at a distance from one another. The interior canvas, from which the artist cuts out simplified biomorphic forms, functions as the actual pictorial plane. Once the internal composition is complete, the outermost surface is treated with mineral oil to amplify translucency and visually bring the composition to the forefront. The resulting works are subtle and atmospheric, both in the visual nature of the paintings and in how they interact with the surrounding space—the kind of light, the quality of light, even the time of day can impact the viewing experience. While the paintings are rendered in a restrained palette of soft whites and grays, depending on the light that illuminates the work, faint shades of blue, purple and green can emerge. Udo Nöger grew up in Enger, Westfalen, Germany. He has exhibited extensively across the globe, including at Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen, and the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri; Museum of Art Honolulu, Hawaii; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado. His work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Art Institute of Chicago; Bass Museum, Miami; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, among others. Born in Enger, Westfalen, Germany in 1961 | Works between San Diego, Miami, and Geneva. 13

Wiegend 14, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 56 x 40 inches/142.2 x 101.6 cm 15

Gewicht des Lichtes 4, mixed media on canvas, 56 x 40 inches/142.2 x 101.6 cm

HIROSHI SENJU The Japanese-born New York-based painter was the first Asian artist to receive an Honorable Mention Award at the Venice Biennale (1995), and has participated in noted exhibitions around the world, including The New Way of Tea, curated by Alexandra Munroe, at the Japan Society and the Asia Society in New York, 2002; Paintings on Fusuma at the Tokyo National Museum, 2003; and Frontiers Reimagined at the Venice Biennale, 2015. Recent awards include the 77th Imperial Prize and the Japan Art Academy Prize from the Japan Art Academy, the Foreign Minister’s Commendation from the Japanese government for contributions to art and the Isamu Noguchi Award. Senju is expecially noted for his numerous public installations. These include seventy-seven murals at Juko-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple in Japan and monumental waterfalls at Tokyo International Airport. The Benesse Art Site of Naoshima Island houses two large-scale installations. Most recently, the artist created two monumental paintings—a waterfall and a cliff—for the Kongobuji Temple at Koyasan in Japan to celebrate the venerated UNESCO World Heritage site’s 1,200th anniversary. Hiroshi Senju’s work is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; the Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tokyo University of the Arts; and the Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido. In 2009, Skira Editore published a monograph of his work titled Hiroshi Senju. The Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa in Japan opened in 2011. Born in Tokyo, 1958 | Lives and works in New York

Waterfall, 2009, fluorescent pigment on mulberry paper mounted on board, 71.5 x 89.5 inches/228 x 182 cm

Aggregation 18 - JA006 (Star 1), 2018, mixed media with Korean mulberry paper, 63 inches/160 cm tondo 22

CHUN KWANG YOUNG Korean artist Chun Kwang Young incorporates elements of painting and sculpture in his practice. He is best known for his acclaimed Aggregation series. These assemblages, made from multitudes of triangular forms wrapped in antique mulberry paper tinted with teas or pigment, merge the techniques, materials and sentiment of his Korean heritage with the conceptual freedom he experienced during his Western education. Born in Hongchun in 1944, Chun grew up during the end of Japanese colonization and the brutality of the Korean War. In the early 1970s, he moved to the United States to pursue a Master’s Degree at the Philadelphia College of Art, where he was drawn to Abstract Expressionism. Over time, he became disillusioned with the materialistic drive that seemed to fuel the American dream and feelings of loneliness intensified his longing for home. Chun returned to Korea to focus on his own methodology, one that was wholly unique and reflective of his history and cultural identity. The development of his signature technique was sparked by childhood memories of medicinal herbs wrapped in mulberry paper and tied into small packages hanging from the ceiling of the local Chinese apothecary. Chun Kwang Young received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Hongik University, Seoul, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania. His work is in numerous public collections, including The Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations, New York; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Society Building, Pennsylvania; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and the Seoul Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta. In 2009, Chun was awarded the Presidential Prize in the 41st Korean Culture and Art Prize by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Born in Hongchun, Korea, 1944 | Lives in works in Seongnam, Korea

Aggregation 18 - AP023, 2018, mixed media with Korean mulberry paper, 70.1 x 57.1 inches/178 x 145 cm 25

SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERIES The gallery has represented established and emerging artists from around the world since 2000. We show work that is aesthetically and intellectually rigorous, infused with humanism and art historically significant. We specialize in paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations with a strong emphasis on materiality. Our artists cross cultural and national boundaries, synthesizing Western visual language with forms, techniques and philosophies from Asia, the Subcontinent and the Middle East. We show this work alongside important work by overlooked women from the New York School. The gallery also has a robust photography program that includes some of the world’s most noted photographers.

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