Announcing the 2023 Spring Graduate Theses Exhibit by Boone T. Nguyen’s MFA Thesis Project, “A Vietnamese Refugee in Azilán, An Autogeography,” and Devanshi Purohit’s MA Thesis Project Exhibition, “The Blended History Painting: Reconstructing Indian Miniature Paintings” at the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA.
Boone’s work is his search for a home where the dialectic of resistance and subjection serve as a living archive of personal and collective memory, which has been accomplished in an installation with video vérité, still images, and archival footage across multiple projections and screens.
Devanshi reconstructs traditional Indian miniature Paintings. Her series of paintings present a combination of traditional Indian and contemporary painting methods using symbols and motifs, architectural structures, and natural scenes. However, her paintings maintain the richness and the beauty of the classic Indian Miniature Painting style.