Pradeep Dalal

PRADEEP DALAL

Pradeep Dalal is an artist and writer. His work was recently included in the exhibitions "Stories in the Social Landscape" at ICP, "Strange Invitation" at Franklin Street Works in Stamford, CT, "Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora" in San Francisco and "Exchanging Glances" at Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai, as well as: "Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic" at Murray Guy and "Fifty Artists Photograph the Future" at Higher Pictures. Pradeep has also exhibited at the Herter Art Gallery in Amherst, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, TART in San Francisco, and Orchard and PS122 Gallery in New York. His photographic work is included in Blind Spot 43. Pradeep's essay "A Bifocal Frame of Reference" was included in Western Artists and India (Thames and Hudson, 2013). He is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, and holds an MFA from ICP/Bard College and a MArch from MIT. He is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and directs the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.

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Rajgir (full grid), 2013
11 Digital C-Prints
8 x 12 inches each

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Rajgir, India

I was visiting Sarnath, Bodh Gaya and Nalanda — key Buddhist sites in northern India — when I found myself in a small town of Rajgir because a kalchakra puja presided over by the Dalai Lama had attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Bodh Gaya making it difficult to find a place to stay. In Rajgir, I chanced on this intimate yet public square, encircled by modest cubic buildings with hints of temple decoration and walls in ordinary white chuna (lime plaster) and raw cement, transformed at dusk into shades of pale yellow and dusty terracotta and enlivened by a gentle stream of people running, circling, walking, stooping, and standing.

11 Digital C-Prints, 8 inches by 12 inches each