Meet the artist at her opening reception: Sunday, September 7 from 4 to 6 pm.
No registration necessary; all welcome.
View the exhibit of photo-collages now through September 22 during library hours: Monday to Thursday: 10 am to 8 pm; Friday: 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday: 10 am to 2 pm; and Sunday 1 pm to 4 pm.
Join her at the library for an Artist’s Talk to hear about her work, her art, the inspiration and the process: Thursday, September 11 at 7 pm.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
RASHMI TALPADE is an American artist residing in Wallingford for almost 35 years. While her art career has covered various formats since graduating from art school, her recent works are more focused on public art for which she has received numerous grants and fellowships from the Connecticut Office of the Arts and the National Endowment of the Arts. Rashmi has exhibited and done projects all across Connecticut as well as New York, Massachusetts and New Mexico. Her works are in the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and the Roopankar Museum of Modern Art in India.
Rashmi’s urban themed collages explore environmental challenges faced by our planet, where industrial relics merge with nature’s relentless march across manmade waste. Her photo-collages, created by assembling hundreds of fragments of her own collection of photographs, reflect our world in seemingly ordinary objects. It is a narrative of our previous and current successes that, while coexisting together, differ in many different ways. We are in the center of a turbulent time in our history, where change is increasingly infiltrating lives of young and old. Viewers are invited to engage with the works or they would miss the details that reveal the optical play of visual depth and challenging perspectives. It is also critical for viewers to stand back and maintain a necessary distance to understand how the collages multiply spatially to create a complete image.
The exhibition has four garden themes photo-collages, sized 40”x30”, which are on loan from Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH). They were created during Rashmi's art residency at YNHCH and was part of an Arts for Healing program “Our Hearts Grow Wild”. The program was designed to foster resiliency in youth and their families through therapeutic interventions and creative arts experiences, to improve coping with their healthcare journey. The collages used garden themed photographs, depicting the four different seasons, which were collected from Yale’s hospital community and the patients and their families. These photographs were then used by the patients to create the collages under the artist’s guidance.
Visit Rashmi’s website to learn more about her and her process: www.artofrashmi.net