Lecture By Rajkamal Kahlon September 25, 2008

CCA San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street, Timken Lecture Hall
7 p.m.
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The Brooklyn-based painter Rajkamal Kahlon investigates racial and colonial authority by engaging with historical texts, for example the massive, 1200-page "Cassell's Illustrated History of India," an ethnography published in 1875. She often actually tears out pages and paints over them, using violent, clashing colors to create images of the human body turned grotesque through traumatic encounters with colonialism, military rule, and torture. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world, including the Oakland Museum of California; arttransponder, Berlin; and in New York at the Queens Museum of Art, White Box, and ApexArt. She earned her MFA from CCA.