Out of India, 2014 - 2015
Sherry Wiggins traveled to Delhi, India to participate in a residency at the Sanskriti Foundation, where she investigated the work of Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 – 1990). Mohamedi is known for her meditative drawings and black-and-white photographs. Mohamedi developed a contemplative and spare visual language that drew from ancient Mughal architectural elements and landscape phenomena.
With camera in hand and Mohamedi as her imaginary guide and artistic mirror, Wiggins visited Humayun’s Tomb, the minaret Qutub Minar, the Red Fort, an ancient stepwell (or baoli) and other magnificent sites in Delhi. Wiggins returned to her studio in the United States and began a new body of large abstract and meditative drawings in India ink, graphite and gouache based on her experiences and her black-and-white photographs of these ancient sites.
Wiggins installed the drawings and photographs side by side in Out of India, an exhibit hosted by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky Auditorium.
(installation shots by Robert Kittila)
Humayan’s Garden - drawing
Humayan’s Garden - photograph
Stepwell at Mehrauli - drawing
Stepwell at Mehrauli - photograph
Window Screen at Humayan’s Tomb – drawing
Installation of Out of India at BMoCA at Macky Auditorium
Installation of Out of India at BMoCA at Macky Auditorium
Screen at Red Fort – photograph
Screen at Red Fort – drawing
Installation of Out of India at BMoCA at Macky Auditorium
Humayan’s Dome – drawing
Humayan’s Dome – photograph