Life In A Tamang Village
Paintings
by
Jennifer Fuller
at
On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm
To be opened by Richard Ragan
Nepal Country Director-World Food Program
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On the Northern side of Shivapuri Mountail sits Gurje, a richly textured and peopled Tamang village in a stunning landscape which Jennifer Fuller calls home in Nepal. “Feelings and Perceptions: Life in a Tamang Village”, presents tactile, glowing and sympathetic portraits of people who make their living under the sun, away from city streets. With an array of techniques, in mediums of watercolor, oil paint, pastel and collage work, Jennifer gives us children bursting out of their frame, chaos swirling around a grindstone mason, and dignity in the form of a gentleman and his horse. Her village life is not romanticized, but touched with enough other worldly sensibility to adequately honor the essence of the people and village life that inspires and informs her work. After graduating with a BFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Jennifer came to volunteer for five months in Nepal. It pulled her back a second time a year later, to volunteer for the Umbrella Organization which provides care for trafficked and destitute children in Swoyambhu. Soon she moved out to work at their orphan placement project in Gurje, Nuwakot. Says Jennifer, “The kindness of the people of Gurje made up for the strangeness that I experienced in my early days and any hardships that I faced.” Her return to her art began by sketching small portraits of the people closest to her. Then she stocked up on Lokta paper and charcoal and as her supplies increased, so did her body of work. Early in 2009 the French artist Christian Salzgeber visited Gurje, met Jennifer at a tea stall and soon introduced her to James Giambrone of Indigo Gallery. Five years after she first came to Nepal she is holding her first solo exhibition. “Five years ago I could have never imagined life in a rural village in Nepal, let alone living there myself; now it is my home, and the villagers have become my family.” Come see how an unusual artist with an unusual path has presented us with realities perhaps less visible to those who pass quickly through Nepal. The exhibition continues through November 15th. |
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on-line gallery opened: 25 Aug. 1995 last updated: 04 Nov. 2009 (click on the small image for full screen image with caption.) |
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