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A Brutal Affair
A Brutal Affair merges selections of two ongoing bodies of works by the artist: A Brutal Affair and The Scaffold Series. A new series of four silkscreen and lithograph prints, published at the Watershed Center for Print Publishing and Research during Avantika’s 2023 Artist Residency, exemplify the artist’s ongoing explorations on Brutalist architecture.
Curated by Hannah Bakken Morris
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR
March 2 - April 6, 2024
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, March 7 | 12-1pm PNCA Mediateque
Opening Reception (Artist in Attendance): March 7 | 5-9pm
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The Sculpture Park
A Pink Scaffold in a Pink City is part of this curated show and a continuation of ‘The Scaffold Series’. The show presents works of international artists within the courtyard and apartments of the 19th Century Palace, constructed within a 17th Century Fort. These site-based and sculptural works will challenge our conceptions of what sculpture is, moving away from conventions and exploring a wide variety of materials, subjects, and approaches.
Curated by Peter Nagy
The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
January 28th - December 1st, 2024
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SITE Seeing
SITE Seeing is a multidisciplinary exhibition connecting artists from Kansas City, Chicago, Portland, New York, and Los Angeles who are working at the intersections of architecture, site-specificity, abstraction, and perception. The ten artists and architects bridge geographies, philosophies, and material conditions to expand the meanings of space and address how identity and content is formed through this research
Organized by Caleb Taylor
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF), Kansas City, MO
May 15- June 24, 2023
Normal Editions
Normal Editions is a non-profit print research facility within the Wonsook Kim School of Art and the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University. Each academic year, professional artists visit Normal Editions to produce collaborative limited edition prints with a team of staff, faculty, and students. The result is an outstanding collaborative experience that goes far beyond the usual classroom.
Avantika Bawa: Artist in Residence
Normal Editions, Collaborative Printing since 1976, Normal, IL, USA
Fall 2023
Watershed
The Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research is a research and education extension of the printmaking lab at Pacific Northwest College of Art, staffed and supported through the MFA in Print Media program. Each academic year, Watershed invites a select few artists to create a series of prints in collaboration with the MFA in Print Media students.
Avantika Bawa: Artist in Residence
Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research, Portland, OR
August 2022-May 2023
simplenothingsimplesomething
simplenothingsimplesomething comprises several new works on paper and a large-scale installation. This solo exhibition is the most recent iteration of Bawa's experiments with construction scaffolds, which began in 2012 and have spanned several formats. Compelled equally by their geometrical elegance and their passive ubiquity in daily life, Bawa has revealed scaffolds to be a surprisingly rich sculptural medium.
Curated by Troy Sherman
University Galleries of Illinois State University
January 17-March 3, 2023
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For a full list of past exhibits, please view the downloadable resume.