The South Asian Women’s Creative Collective

{ SAWCC }

is pleased to invite you to our

{ 3rd ANNUAL ART AUCTION BENEFIT }

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The Guild Art Gallery, NYC
45 W. 21st Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010

Cocktail Reception starts at 6:30 PM

Silent Auction ends at 8:30 PM

Afterparty with DJ Rekha 9:30 – 11:30
The Lounge at Elmo
156 Seventh Avenue (between 19th & 20th Street)

Tickets for the event are $35 in advance or $50 at the door.

SOLD OUT

{ ARTISTS }

Jaishri Abichandani, Fariba Alam, Blanka Amezkua, Afruz Amighi, Firelei Baiz, Rina Banerjee, Anjali Bhargava, Alexis Callender, Ruby Chisti, Martin Dust, Mike Estabrook, Safia Fatimi, Chitra Ganesh, Mariam Ghani, Sarah Hardesty, Vandana Jain, Shalalae Jamil, Baseera Khan, Swati Khurana, Joey Kilrain, Natalie Kocsis, Pooneh Maghazehe, Annu P. Matthew, Divya Mehra, Samanta Batra Mehta, Christopher Meyers, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nitin Mukul, Yamini Nayar, Ramya Ravisankar, Sa’dia Rehman, Joyce Riley, Miriam Romais, Katayoun Vaziri, Anahita Vossoughi, Richard Wilson

{ SPONSORS }

Thorsten Albertz

Komal Dhall

Nina and Koji Inoue

Izze

Swati Khurana

The Art Law practice group of Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

Elaine Ng and Art Asia Pacific Magazine

Ashu Rai and Sholay Productions

DJ Rekha and Sangament

The Greene Grape Fine Wine Compay

SAWCC is recognized as tax exempt under section 501 c (3) of the Internal Revenue Code

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SAWCC Auction 2009

Panel Discussion on Contemporary Pakistani Art

Tuesday, September 29th, 7–9pm

SAWCC is proud to present a panel discussion on Pakistani art and censorship. As contemporary Pakistani art quickly crosses borders and gains international leeway, local art production is nevertheless stifled by government manipulation and censorship. Acutely aware of the nation’s socio-economic state of affairs, controversial imagery as a means of commentary and communication is still gravely discouraged and suppressed.

Razia Sadik from Columbia University comes together with Ruby Chishti, Shalalae Jamil, and Asma Kazmi, three female Pakistani artists practicing in the U.S., to generate a dialogue around negotiating censorship and art production in the West as Pakistani artists. What are the consequences of such liberties and assuagements when practicing in the diaspora? What responsibilities must still be considered within this framework?

Asian American Writers’ Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn 5th Ave and Broadway)
New York, NY
$5–$7 sliding scale
Food and beverages will be served

Ruby Chishti graduated from the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan and resides in New York. She has been exhibiting internationally since 2000 in Lahore, Sydney, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Chicago, Islamabad, New York, and recently at Center of Contemporary Art, Sacramento. Her work is held in private collections and featured in books and magazines. She has held residencies in England and Pakistan and in 2006 she received a fellowship award at Vermont Studio Center. Her work is very personal and political, making strong statements about gender issues and war. She takes humble and ephemeral materials and creates works of art such as “Weapon of Mass Destruction” and “Cessation.”

Shalalae Jamil was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1978. Educated at Bennington College (BFA, 2001) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (MFA, 2006) she has since then taught, exhibited, and curated work in Pakistan, the U.S., and the U.K. Using photography, video, installation, and elements of performance, her works target home as a region consumed by the collisions between religion, tradition, and modernity. In 2009, she has shown work at the Kara Film Festival, Grey Noise, and Woman Made Gallery. Her work is in private collections in India, Pakistan, and the U.S. Currently the artist lives and works between Karachi and New York.

Asma Kazmi was born in Pakistan and studied at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited and included in collections such as the Contemporary Art Museum in St Louis; Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium; Gallery 400, University of Illinois in Chicago; Boston Underground Film Festival; Balagan Film and Video Series, Boston; Women In Film & Video/New England; and the MassArt Film Society.

Razia Sadik is an artist, curator, and college art teacher. She was born in Karachi in 1972 and was educated at the National College of Arts in Lahore. She completed her MFA at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London in 1999. Following this she was a studio and contextual studies instructor at the Department of Design and the Department of Fine Art at the National College of Arts, Lahore and the Beaconhouse National University–School of Visual Arts, Lahore, Pakistan for seven years. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. In 2008 Razia coordinated and presented “Conversations Across Cultures: South Asian Imaginaries” symposium on art, video, and music and curated its accompanying “Critical Studio: Dialogue with South Asian Artists” exhibition and forum at Teachers College. She is collaborating with two faculty members from Teachers College on producing a comprehensive publication about this event. Razia is a studio instructor, student-teacher supervisor, and the director of the Macy Art Gallery in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College.