Rina Banerjee: Disgust

< 2014

Gallery exhibition

Rina Banerjee
Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Installation photography / Rina Banerjee: Disgust

Rina Banerjee /
Make me a summary of the world! She was his guide and had traveled on camel, rhino, elephant / and kangaroo, dedicated to dried plants, glass houses - for medical study, vegetable sexuality, / self-pollination, and fertilization her reach pierced the woods, country by country., 2014 /
wood rhino, Chinese umbrellas, linen, beads, pewter soldier, grape vines, glass chandelier drops, wire, nylon and bead flower /
108 x 84 in. (274.3 x 213.4 cm) diameter

Rina Banerjee /
In thick bush and among thieving nomads devotion was mined and all the world could be saved as missionary was made into medicine, 2014 /
feathers, silk, stone beads, turtle shell, glass, silk flowers, doll parts, brass candlesticks, Cowrie shells, porcelain on copper, plexiglass /
74 x 22 in. dia. (188 x 55.9 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Explores not fortune tellers travel back and forth at last to tell you whats not and whats what, they maybe made of every leather / his head looks to too many paths curious of all that appears vast, whats remote and featred and repulsive can, 2014 /
glass beads, peacock feathers, knitted steel, acrylic, steel /
43 x 14 x 35 in. (109.2 x 35.6 x 88.9 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
She was now in western style dress covered in part of Empires' ruffle and red dress, had a foreign and peculiar race, a Ganesha who had lost her head, was thrown across sea until herself shipwrecked. A native of Bangladesh lost foot to root in videsh, followed her mother full stop on forehead, trapped tongue of horn and grew ram-like under stress, 2011 /
Cowrie Shells, rooster feather, gourds, acrylic horns, ceramic balls, plastic netting, amber glass vials, violet glass bulbs, false glass doe eyeballs, silk and synthetic Lavin ruffled red dress /
5.5ft (diameter) x 7ft (height)

Rina Banerjee /
Soldier: overseas and out of place his species seeded dead to grow as common place, bore beautiful flowers of wound, carnage discovered a resin sticky like sweat. He had courage and loyalty when everyone wept and came home emptied while we slept., 2014 /
gourds, porcelain, cowrie shells, mannequin parts, silk, glass beads, feather fans, brass Moroccan lantern, acrylic horn /
81 x 20 x 30 in. (205.7 x 50.8 x 76.2 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Lovely was this witch who drew her orange eggs, 4 or 6, each a DNA she threw in relieving herself an awkward humanity, 2013 /
acrylic, ink on Birch panel /
10 5/8 x 13 15/16 x 1/2 in. (27 x 35.4 x 1.3 cm) /
Framed: 11 1/8 x 14 7/16 x 1 1/2 in. (28.3 x 36.7 x 3.8 cm) /
Private collection

Rina Banerjee /
Dressmaker and Shopping girl,
Chinese goods and garment Industry tinsel, made in Hong Kong, made in India for export from port to port made by small hands and little hands, short people from far away lands. Dressmaker ghost follows me around from shop to shop in Big country with large people with Big hands and high heels., 2014 /
medium TBD /
11 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 3/4 in. (30.2 x 20 x 1.9 cm) /
Framed: 12 3/8 x 8 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (31.4 x 21.3 x 3.8 cm) /
Private collection

Rina Banerjee /
Made of sugary sin and sweet greed she was wide eyed and relentless when plenty of nectar and flower brought also a mood much too sour, unleashed her, her all that was bad in power, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on wood panel /
10 15/16 x 11 7/8 x 3/4 in. (27.8 x 30.2 x 1.9 cm) /
Framed: 11 7/16 x 12 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (29.1 x 31.4 x 3.8 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Lost and Found, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on wood panel /
11 x 9 15/16 x 3/4 in. (27.9 x 25.2 x 1.9 cm) /
Framed: 11 1/2 x 10 7/16 x 1 1/2 in. (29.2 x 26.5 x 3.8 cm) /
Private collection

Rina Banerjee /
Upon first myth and empirical observation the hero her angel leaps in cry opens the moon to urge on a rain that may cleanse all from the sweat of her jealous man, 2013 /
mixed media on wood panel /
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Animal Love, 2014 /
acrylic and ink on Birch panel /
11 7/8 x 10 15/16 x 3/4 in. (30.2 x 27.8 x 1.9 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
All these organs so too the oral and anal, and nasal, drops and globs like snail, slug, slip and slide, dissolve all our strength, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on paper /
40 x 59 3/4 in. (101.6 x 151.8 cm) /
Framed: 47 x 66 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (119.4 x 169.5 x 4.4 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Courageous odors violent and natural cut open veils of decency reveals the misformed, the funny and peculiar and all such oddities in a grand gesture, a assertion of the physical, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on paper /
29 3/4 x 43 13/16 in. (75.6 x 111.3 cm) /
Framed: 36 3/4 x 50 13/16 in. (93.3 x 129.1 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Taste my tongue, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on paper /
18 3/4 x 13 13/16 in. (47.6 x 35.1 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Madmen and magic, and medicine too could not rid of her this ugliness, her illness, her form, her figure, her inheritance and in wildest dream she was she, not like her others, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on paper /
34 5/8 x 16 1/2 in. (87.9 x 41.9 cm) / Framed: 41 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (105.7 x 59.7 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
In abstinance, in resistance like vegetariansim viewing truth to replace food, replace shame, the indecency of craving to belt desire she turned loose grew to tire and skip to her circus hour dangled on tight rope of blue wire so she was inspired., 2014 /
acrylic, ink on paper /
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Run,run,petty crime, shame on her mind, 2014 /
acrylic, ink on paper /
Two panels, each: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Rina Banerjee /
Ugly boy. I saw him-he was thick in parts and sort of too short, with skin, light in color, yellowish tone, but spotted like dirty mushrooms, he snored at school and growled upon waking and his nose always ran, his brows were scraggly, he had a beard that never really grew, he had a head of hair both thick, short and curly long and limp, his hair was often oily and so dirty-so, so nasty, he was disgusting!, 2014 /
ink, acrylic on paper /
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

8 May - 28 Jun 2014

artist profile

press release

Selected articles

Pagel, David. "Scraps lead to elegant whole."
Los Angeles Times. May 14, 2014.
full article, PDF | www.latimes.com

Frank, Priscilla. "Artist Explores The Feminine Grotesque In Magically Weird Exhibition."
Huffington Post, May 12, 2014.
full article, PDF | www.huffingtonpost.com

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