{"id":1385,"date":"2005-04-19T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1385"},"modified":"2005-10-11T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T16:23:21","slug":"kahlo_meet_kahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/19\/kahlo_meet_kahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahlo, meet Kahlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawc.org\/news\/2005\/05fellows.shtm\"><img style=\"width: 100px; height: 125px\" alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/RajkamalKahlon2.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratio3.org\/kahlon_3.htm\"><img style=\"width: 200px; height: 205px\" alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/RajkamalKahlon.jpg\" align=left vspace=10 border=0><\/a>A Manhattan gallery honors artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratio3.org\/kahlon_3.htm\">Rajkamal Kahlon<\/a> this Friday with a&nbsp;reception opening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppowgallery.com\/exhibitions\/2005kahlon\/index.html\">her latest exhibit<\/a>, &#8216;Unbound.&#8217; Kahlon&#8217;s work, which I first saw at &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/love_kills_me.html\">Fatal Love<\/a>,&#8217; reminds me of the tortured visions of Frida Kahlo and Tarsem Singh, director of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0209958\/\">The Cell<\/a>.<\/em> (I said Kahlo, not J.Lo.)<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Kahlon literally paints over history:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Kahlon&#8217;s new series of paintings respond to a nineteenth century tome entitled <em>Cassell&#8217;s Illustrated History of India.<\/em> After finding this book in 2003 on auction at Sotheby&#8217;s, Kahlon borrowed $400&#8230; with the intention of unbinding [it]&#8230; painting over texts and manipulating the illustrations set in front of her&#8230; she creates a charged, fragmented narrative about her relationship to India&#8217;s history and its colonial past.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>You can see more of her work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratio3.org\/kahlon_3.htm\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppowgallery.com\/exhibitions\/2005kahlon\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=tiny>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppowgallery.com\/exhibitions\/2005kahlon\/index.html\">Unbound<\/a>&#8216; opening, Fri Apr. 22, 6-8 pm reception, 8-10pm afterparty with DJ Rekha; PPOW Gallery, 555 W. 25th St., 2nd floor, between 10th\/11th Aves., Manhattan<\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan gallery honors artist Rajkamal Kahlon this Friday with a&nbsp;reception opening her latest exhibit, &#8216;Unbound.&#8217; Kahlon&#8217;s work, which I first saw at &#8216;Fatal Love,&#8217; reminds me of the tortured visions of Frida Kahlo and Tarsem Singh, director of The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/19\/kahlo_meet_kahl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}