Opening Celebration and Artist Talk - What Will It Take / For Us To Awake?
Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 06:30pm
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street
Join the museum community, SACHI, and artist Ashwini Bhat to celebrate her newly installed sculpture and 25 years of collaboration.
Ashwini Bhat’s What Will It Take / For Us To Awake? was recently commissioned by the Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India (SACHI) to commemorate their founding and 25 years of fruitful partnership with the Asian Art Museum. Don’t miss this singular opportunity to hear from the artist and learn about the process of realizing this long-term installation, now on view outside the museum’s third-floor South Asian galleries. Register today to secure your spot!
Included with General Admission.
About the Artist
After 35 years in Southern India, Ashwini Bhat now lives and works in the foothills of Sonoma Mountain, California. Her practice - comprising sculpture, ceramics, installation, and video - is informed by a background in literature and classical Indian dance. Exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other, Bhat’s work emphasizes non-Western metaphysical concepts of empathy for the non-human, as well as the transformative aspects of place.
Bhat is a 2023 United States Artists fellow and a recipient of the Howard Foundation Award for Sculpture, and the McKnight Foundation Residency Fellowship. Her work features in collections including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Newport Art Museum, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan, FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum in China. She is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles and Project 88, Mumbai, India.
