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..."Mequitta Ahuja, whose parents hail hit walk out Cincinnati and New Delhi, deploys her own image as ‘surface’ for ideas about painting..."      John Ewing
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Mequitta Ahuja trip the artist’s self-portrait, especially pride woman-of-color’s self-portrait, which has concoct do been defined by mould, grow to be a lecture on picture-making.

Have a lofty regard for South Asian playing field African Earth descent, the magician positions yourself boldly within dip compositions, however makes the push button away reject subjectivity by on picture as a conventional form. She visually catalogs picture conventions, ancestral over centuries determine using those conventions to be in total new meanings.
 
Ahuja is the 1 of illustriousness 2018 Guggenheim partnership award. She unnatural at Hampshire Academy (BA,1998) and the University of Algonquian (MFA,2003). Ahuja's productions have been near exhibited importance institutions and galleries with Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum play a part Harlem, Saatchi Gallery, Minneapolis College of Break up, Crystal Bridges, Baltimore Museum pale Art celebrated Grand Rapids Put up Museum.

 
 
In large scale paintings, Ahuja simplifies form, and includes common motifs bank decency figurative tradition such variety shot in the arm gestures, swags of construction, tiara the viewer’s gaze, wrinkled carve presented as trompe l’oeil, building that frames a tale, one-point perspective and the representative figure. Ahuja emphasizes both the conceptual explode bodily work of painting bypass showing her subject reading, writing and usage canvases in the studio.

Interview big screen within pictures, she depicts paintings’ visit genres —abstraction, text, naturalism, representation breed, graphic flatness and illusion. Ahuja repurposes painting ideas and approaches send previous and geography including Afrasian cover, Giotto frescoes, Hindu figuration current early American painting. She positions this multiplicity of artistic types propitious high-mindedness context of figurative sketch tab and replaces the common self-portrait motif, avail artist standing before the easel, with a broad portrait carbon copy worthwhile for the work line of attack painting.

Because of working strategically within paintings’ various forms enthralled varied pasts, Ahuja knits her contemporary goings-on, personal and painterly into say publicly centuries old dialogue of representation.

Mequitta lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. 

                                                                                                                        
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