Selections

2013-14
digital print, flashe paint

Digital photographs of contingent objects “selected” with white paint.

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Chidambaram: Yajnayudhani

1998 paper and acrylic paint 77-1/2"x72" (48 12"x9" drawings) A set of 48 painted images of Vedic ritual objects.

Praying Project

Collaboration with Aki Sasamoto Exit Art, NYC 2005 Block of soap with puja offerings, water, brass bowl, speech A performative extension of Everything Chidambaram, a large block of soap cast with puja offering ...

Rome/Bologna Drawings

Ink on paper 2009

A Courtyard, an Axis, an Ambulatory

Stux Gallery, Boston MA 1982 cast plaster Based on Heidegger's famous analogy of the bridge, the barely suggested characteristics of courtyard, axis, and ambulatory already present in the gallery are completed with ...

Double Vision: Text Photographs

digital photographs mounted on sintra approx. 50"x 40" each Enlarged photographic prints of three narratives from the published Transactions of the American Philosophical Society: Two Hearts found in one Partridge; Account of ...

Potter’s Field Book

The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City 2001

Everywhere Chidambaram

1998-2002 Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi (1998) Bose Pacia Gallery in New York (2000) Everywhere Chidambaram developed as a reaction to two fundamental yet opposing features of India's character: tolerance of chaos ...

I.C.A. Project

Institute Of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 1979 graphite powder on architectural surfaces 12' x 28' x 28' This installation imposed a drawing of an imaginary space into the architectural space in which it ...

Transparencies

1993 glass, mixed media typically 36" x 18" x 8" Flame-worked glass constructions trace passages and locations on the verge of invisibility, conflating scientific instrumentation with the unknown, imagined space of the body. ...