The artist in the protective shadow of Lizard Man

The artist in the protective shadow of Lizard Man




 

 

  EDUCATION:  

    Training in ceramics, metal and stonework, at:

    Panjab University (India)

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

    University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

    Corcoran School of Art (Washington, DC)

    As apprentice with a stone artist in Harare, Zimbabwe

    As apprentice at metal shop in St. Lucia, Caribbean

     MBA, IIM Ahmedabad

     MS in Development Economics, University of Pennsylvania

 EXHIBITIONS:

     Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, (gp) )

     Winslow  Boathouse Studio, Provincetown, MA, Summer 1995

     Studio House at Walbridge, Washington, DC, May 1996 (solo)

     Café Nema, Washington, DC, August 1997 (solo)

     Café Nema, Washington, DC, March 1998 (2 artist show)

     Tryst Coffeehouse, Bar and Lounge, Washington, DC, January 1999 (solo)

     CAVE Gallery, Washington, DC, March 1999 (group show)

     Art-o-matic Show, Washington, DC, May-June 1999 (group show)

     Season’s Show, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, June-July 1999 (group show)

     Six Degrees of Inspiration, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Va. Jan-March 2000 (six international artists

     Stone Sculpture from Zimbabwe, Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC (curator and one of the artists), February 2000, and at Studio House at Walbridge, May 2000

     (Un)Suitable Girls: South Asian Women Artists, SAWCC and Paisley, New York City, March-April 2000 (group show)

     Global Palette of Feminism: Cultural Perspectives on Feminism from 7 International Women Artists at the Beijing Plus Five Global Feminist Symposium of UNIFEM. City University of New York. June 5-15, 2000 (www.washingtonart.net) – curator and artist

     Adams Morgan Juried Show, Washington, DC. September 2000 (winner)

     Artomatic 2000, Washington, DC. October 2000 (group show)

             Installation, “Altar a las Tetas, a la Unidad y al Pene

             Mural, “The Universe and I: May the Force be with You”

     “Between Arrival and Departure”  Retrospective Show, Café Nema, Washington, DC, June 2001 (solo)

     “Masquerade”, Alliance Francaise, St. Lucia, WI. July 14-31, 2001 (solo)

     “Dreamweaver’s World”, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, Feb 23-March 2, 2003 (solo)

      Ceramic Sculptures, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, Feb 26-March 3, 2008 (4 artist show)

 RESIDENCIES:

     Chapungu Sculpture Gallery, Zimbabwe, Stone sculpture. Summer 1998

     Dominic Benhura, Zimbabwe, Stone sculpture. Summer 1999

 

Annu Ratta is an Indian sculptor and muralist who mainly creates wall-mounted sculptural art using ceramics, hardware, textiles, recycled metal parts and recently, stone. Her work is a play on colour, texture and form, which she hopes expresses her passions. Much of her inspiration comes from the rich colors, forms and facets, of traditional Indian, Middle Eastern, Southern African and Mexican art and mythology, as well as the tough, textural beauty of today's industrial products. Her work with metal and hardware and metal parts branches into some rather butch floral landscapes. She also works as a development economist, focusing on poverty reduction in Africa. She strives to use her art to express her ideals, views and frustrations on development and globalization in this fast changing world, where so much is getting lost in the rush to emulate western economic systems. Still, its also a kind of funny and rather pretty world, hence the artist's confusion.

Just another thing, her arms are really not as fat as the picture above suggests-just a bad angle.

 


                   
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