Art Talk: Manjari Sharma and Katherine Anne Paul
December 16, 2023 | 1 – 2:30 PM
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.
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Hear from featured artist Manjari Sharma in conversation with Katherine Anne Paul, PhD, the Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, discuss the works and themes in special-engagement exhibition Expanding Darshan: Manjari Sharma, To See and Be Seen on view in the Katz Wing for Modern Art.
About the Speakers:
Manjari Sharma was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and now calls Los Angeles her home. Sharma is a visual artist and art educator who makes work addressing the issues of memory, family, identity, multiculturalism, and personal mythology. Manjari's project Darshan, a photographic re-imagining of deities, garnered her wide critical acclaim and was published as part of a limited-edition book series with Nazaraeli Press in 2021. In 2017, the Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned Manjari to create a collaborative series favorably reviewed in the New York Times by art critic Roberta Smith, and her work has traveled to the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark and Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany. Her works have been recognized by The New York Times, Vice Magazine, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and Huff Post, and can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Carlos Museum, Emory University, and Birmingham Museum of Art and Santa Barbara Museum of Art amongst various private collections.
Katherine Anne Paul, PhD, is the Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, USA. A specialist in the arts of Tibet and a Fulbright scholar, she lectures and publishes widely and has curated numerous exhibitions—showcasing both classic and contemporary art originating from Asia. Select exhibitions and publications include: Expanding Darshan: Manjari Sharma, To See and Be Seen; Handheld Landscapes: The Four Seasons in Chinese Painting from the Birmingham Museum of Art; Arts of South Asia: Cultures of Collecting; Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time and Place; and Beyond Zen: Japanese Buddhism Revealed. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College, a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has held positions at the Newark Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Textile Museum in Washington, DC.
Art Talk is made possible by the generosity of the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.