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Sukanya
Rahman was born in Calcutta, India. She studied painting at
the College of Art in New Delhi and at the Ecole Nationale
des Beaux Arts in Paris on a French Government scholarship.
She also studied dance at the Martha Graham School in New York.
She has held several solo shows of her work in New York, and
participated in select group shows in galleries from New York
to New Delhi.
Her
entrance into the world of visual arts has followed a circuitous
route starting with a gratifying career as an Indian classical
dancer.
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Sukanya
Rahman’s collages and mixed media constructions are juxtapositions
of the multiple layers of her own life. Choreography, narrative,
elements of the vibrant popular art of India and American pop
images creep unconsciously and insidiously into her work–a
coming together of fragments of scattered images, memories: a
collision and a reconciliation of her two worlds and cultures.
Her memoir, Dancing in The Family,
was recently published by HarperCollins/India and hailed as “a gem in the
history of Indian dance.” She and her husband, Frank Wicks, live on a Maine
island and have two grown sons and one grandson. |
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