Ranu Mukherjee
Baseera Khan
Gauri Gill
Head on over to the Fine Arts Gallery on the SFSU campus if you can to see their current group exhibition Picturing Parallax. The show uses the metaphor of photographic distortion to frame how these six South Asian artists portray issues pertaining to their culture even as some are a generation or so removed. Curator Santhi Kavuri-Bauer chose artists that specifically work in photography and video, and I especially loved Bay Area Now 6 artist Ranu Mukherjee's hybrid film Abundance Picture with its oversaturated colors as well as Baseera Khan's beautiful composite of stop motion and traditional animation. It was the photographs by Gauri Gill that completely stopped me in my tracks though, depicting South Asian immigrants in their new homes in the States with an eye for both humor and pathos. She has been compared to Robert Frank, and rightfully so.
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