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BIRAAJ DODIYA
Stone is a Forehead
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Stone is a Forehead
“Stone is a forehead where dreams grieve, without curving waters and frozen cypresses. Stone is a shoulder on which to bear time, with trees formed of tears and ribbons and planets.”
Stone is a Forehead, the title of Biraaj Dodiya’s debut solo at Experimenter is a reference to ‘The Laid Out Body’, a part of the poem ‘Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias’ by Federico García Lorca commemorating the death of a friend.
Referring to personal memory, loss and coming of age, the body of work takes the form of a lament; bringing together signifiers of youth and mortality, discomfort and relief, absence and distance through paintings and sculptures. The works in the exhibition explore stages of material proposition and cancellation. Like an excavation site, they are a result of processes of breakdown and repair, much like the urgent recalling of moments of crisis.
The process of applying paint, scraping it off and slapping it on becomes undecipherable and refers to moments where sequences of events are a blur and not chronological. The sculptures, take the form of ramps and beams—structural elements commonly used as aids for supporting or opposing weight. Abstract forms combine with discarded objects, and personal relics, becoming signposts of an interior life. Materials and surfaces seem to communicate with each other allowing exchanges between the found and the made, and simultaneously playing with perception of weight. The paintings, part funereal abstractions, part nocturnal landscapes, are primarily studies of uncertainty and distance. Moments of abrasion and resistance are hinged from slivers of light, balancing movement and stasis, form and vision.
Dodiya is interested in metaphors that develop through modes of making, where erasure of meaning becomes a process of negotiating with time. Stone becomes a forehead, paint becomes revocation, rubber becomes skin or blood or sweat or a pool of dirty rainwater from many monsoons ago. Lodged between memory and traversing shifting emotions of forfeiture, Stone is a Forehead reveals a nuanced practice, navigating a space between the inner self and trepidation of precarious moments of personal loss.
Biraaj Dodiya (b. 1993) holds a MFA from New York University (2018), and a BFA from School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago (2015), with an emphasis in Painting and Drawing. Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai, India.
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Transit Bed
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Sirens
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Ramp 2 (Salt)
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Ramp 3 (Cobra)
Wood, bicycle chain, varnish, polyurethane rubber, epoxy resin,harmonica, snakeskin wallet, T bevel.
96 x 3.5 x 3 in2020
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Mixed media96 x 3.5 x 3 in
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Mixed media96 x 3.5 x 3 in
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Mixed media96 x 3.5 x 3 in
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Ramp 4 (Rising Smoke)
Wood, rubber tube, knee brace, polyurethane rubber, epoxyresin, duct tape, magic eye card with oil on canvas.
Ramp: 93 x 10.5 inPainting: 18 x 14 in
2020
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Mixed mediaDimensions variable
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Mixed mediaDimensions variable
2020
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Biraaj Dodiya (b. 1993)
EDUCATION2018. New York University, Master of Fine Arts
2015. School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago, Bachelors of Fine Arts emphasis in Painting and Drawing
2013. Syracuse University, Florence, Italy, Summer - Painting and Art History, specializing in Italian Pre-Renaissance and Renaissance art history.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS2020. Stone is a Forehead, Experimenter-Hindustan Road, Kolkata
2017. Burn your finger, And kiss it yourself, 80WSE, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS2020. India Art Fair, Delhi
2019. AD Design Show, Mumbai
2018. NYU Performance Video Art Show curated by Sue de Beer, Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York, NY
2018. NYU MFA Thesis Show Part I, 80WSE, New York, NY
2017. in medias res, 80WSE, New York, NY
2017. Send Your Location, 33 Orchard, New York, NY
2017. NYU MFA First Year Exhibition, 80WSE, New York, NY
2016. Xenophilia, Eye on India, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
2016. Luminarts Cultural Foundation: Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2015. Still Collisions, Local-lective, Chicago, IL
2015. Bed, Bath and Beyond, Johnson, VT
2015. Cubical the Musical: A Survey of Work by Advanced Painting class, Chicago, IL
2015. Advanced Pain, Crybaby Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015. Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2014. Or, Just Come Over, Outhouse, Chicago, IL
2014. PickleJuiceJeanJacket curated by Ursula Andreeff, Stone Soup Ashland Cooperative, Chicago, IL
2013. IceCreamPaintJob curated by Ursula Andreeff, Stone Soup Ashland Cooperative, Chicago, IL
2013. Photograph Chicago, Nuveen Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL
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AWARDS / HONORS / RESIDENCIES / PUBLICATIONS2019. Ginger Zine, Issue 16, Spring 2019
2018. Jack Goodman Scholarship in Art and Technology, Recipient
2018. The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, Nominee
2017. NYU MFA scholarship, Recipient
2016. Ace Hotel, Chicago drawing collection
2016. Luminarts Cultural Foundation: Visual Arts Fellowship, Finalist
2015. Welcome to my Guest Room Digital Artist Residency
2015. Vermont Studio Center, Residency, Merit Scholarship Recipient
2014-15. SAIC Advanced Painting program
2013. SAIC, Nuveen Center: Photograph Chicago Award
2012-15. SAIC Student Leadership Award
2012. Work published in SAIC First 2011-12
2011-15. SAIC Merit Scholarship recipient