indian miniature painting

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Today, Emily chats with India-born, Oakland based painter Rupy C. Tut. 

About Artist Rupy C. Tut:

Rupy C. Tut is a painter dissecting historical and contemporary displacement narratives around identity, belonging, and gender. As a descendant of refugees and a first generation immigrant, Rupy’s family narrative of movement, loss, and resilience is foundational to her creative inquiries. Tut's artistic practice expands, innovates, and reframes the traditions of Indian miniature painting. She mixes her own pigments and turns to hemp paper and linen to contend and make visible one’s place in the world. 

​Rupy C. Tut lives and works in Oakland, California. Her work has been presented through exhibitions and talks at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; London City Hall; Stanford University; The Peel Art Gallery and Museum Archives, Toronto; a solo exhibition Rupy C. Tut: A Recipe for Brown Skin at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara; and a solo exhibition Rupy C. Tut: Search and Rescue at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Rupy C. Tut is represented by Jessica Silverman.

Visit Rupy's Website: RupyCTut.com

Follow Rupy on Social Media: @RupyCTut

For more on Rupy's current & upcoming exhibits: 

• Insitute of Contemporary Art San Francisco
• Asian Art Museum
• UCLA Fowler Museum

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About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:

Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women’s Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.

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CREDITS:

Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. 

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The Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. 

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In this podcast Peta and Tan get to chat in the Art Room with the phenomenal Singh Twins! 
Grayson Perry said of the twins, whose work he admires: 'They combine traditions from both Eastern and Western art to make provocative and sharply political work."  and Simon Schama named them as "The artistic face of Britain."  
The Singh twins are British artists of Sikh heritage born in Richmond Surrey and raised in the Liverpool area. They are now international contemporary British artists whose award winning work is influenced by Indian miniature paintings and deals with British contemporary culture as well as topics such as globalisation colonial history and migration. 
The Singh twins have received many awards and official recognition for their work most notably they were made honorary citizens of Liverpool, in 2009 received an MBE from the queen in 2011 and later were awarded honorary doctorates. 
As well as  painting, the  twins are also published illustrators, writers, film makers and designers and they've exhibited globally. The sisters work is always credited to the Singh twins even if the sisters have worked alone on a piece. 
 We are very excited today to welcome the Singh twins to the Art Room!

British painter Elisabeth Deane’s love of Indian miniature painting was born from a trip to Shantiniketan in West Bengal in 2011. Inspired by the work of polymath Rabindranath Tagore, she went on to study under Rajasthani masters, and later at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London. Her work is a mix of rigid geometry and flowing figurative work, drawing from sources as varied as Persian and Indian miniatures and folklore to Islamic geometry. Her first solo-show, 'Rhythmic Measures', was held at Grosvenor Gallery in December 2019.