2021 Commencement Exhibition

Arnab Gan Choudhury

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2021 Commencement Exhibition
A wooden plank on the seat of a steel chair, balanced by loaves of bread on one end and a plate with breadcrumbs on the other. A string of twine is tied to the plate on one end and a glass that is placed beneath the plank and half-filled with water. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Portrait of a Breadcrumb 2021 Steel chair, wood, plate, glass, water, twine, bread. 53” x 14” x 15”
A wooden plank on the seat of a steel chair, balanced by loaves of bread on one end and a plate with breadcrumbs on the other. A string of twine is tied to the plate on one end and a glass that is placed beneath the plank and half-filled with water. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Portrait of a Breadcrumb detail 01 2021 Steel chair, wood, plate, glass, water, twine, bread. 53” x 14” x 15”
A wooden plank on the seat of a steel chair, balanced by loaves of bread on one end and a plate with breadcrumbs on the other. A string of twine is tied to the plate on one end and a glass that is placed beneath the plank and half-filled with water. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Portrait of a Breadcrumb detail 02 2021 Steel chair, wood, plate, glass, water, twine, bread. 53” x 14” x 15”
A plank of milled found wood horizontally balanced on a found metal bed frame standing vertically. One glass half-filled with water is placed on one end of the wooden plank and a twine tied around the glass on one end is tied to a twig, which is placed un + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Atlas 2020 Milled wood, found metal structure, glass, water, twig, twine, gravity. 47” x 42” x 14”
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Arnab Gan Choudhury
Atlas detail 01 2020 Milled wood, found metal structure, glass, water, twig, twine, gravity. 47” x 42” x 14”
A plank of milled found wood horizontally balanced on a found metal bed frame standing vertically. One glass half-filled with water is placed on one end of the wooden plank and a twine tied around the glass on one end is tied to a twig, which is placed un + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Atlas detail 02 2020 Milled wood, found metal structure, glass, water, twig, twine, gravity. 47” x 42” x 14”
Two chairs - one stacked inverted on the other. A plate with canned sardines, a fork and a knife is placed inside the space underneath the seat of the inverted chair. The plate is tied with a twine which connects to a glass of water placed on the seat of + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Apt 2R, 1403 Madison Avenue 2021 Chairs from apartment, plate, canned sardines, glass, water, fork, knife, twine. 72” x 18” x 20”
Two chairs - one stacked inverted on the other. A plate with canned sardines, a fork and a knife is placed inside the space underneath the seat of the inverted chair. The plate is tied with a twine which connects to a glass of water placed on the seat of + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Apt 2R, 1403 Madison Avenue detail 01 2021 Chairs from apartment, plate, canned sardines, glass, water, fork, knife, twine. 72” x 18” x 20”
Two chairs - one stacked inverted on the other. A plate with canned sardines, a fork and a knife is placed inside the space underneath the seat of the inverted chair. The plate is tied with a twine which connects to a glass of water placed on the seat of + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Apt 2R, 1403 Madison Avenue detail 02 2021 Chairs from apartment, plate, canned sardines, glass, water, fork, knife, twine. 72” x 18” x 20”
A lump of dried mud balanced on a brick on one side, a glass of water with a small chunk of clay balance on a small piece of wood on the other side and a piece of styrofoam with a hole and smeared with clay in between, separating the two. A rope passing t + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Tin Can Telephone 2021 Styrofoam, clay, glass, water, wood, brick, rope. 26” x 22” x 13”
A lump of dried mud balanced on a brick on one side, a glass of water with a small chunk of clay balance on a small piece of wood on the other side and a piece of styrofoam with a hole and smeared with clay in between, separating the two. A rope passing t + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Tin Can Telephone detail 01 2021 Styrofoam, clay, glass, water, wood, brick, rope. 26” x 22” x 13”
A lump of dried mud balanced on a brick on one side, a glass of water with a small chunk of clay balance on a small piece of wood on the other side and a piece of styrofoam with a hole and smeared with clay in between, separating the two. A rope passing t + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Tin Can Telephone detail 02 2021 Styrofoam, clay, glass, water, wood, brick, rope. 26” x 22” x 13”
A travel bag over-packed with boxes of American electronic items and immigration documents balanced on a chipped away wooden bar stemming from inside a glass slightly filled with water. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Return Gift 2020 Travel suitcase, wood, glass, water, electronic item boxes, clamp belt, immigration documents. 40” x 25” x 21”
A travel bag over-packed with boxes of American electronic items and immigration documents balanced on a chipped away wooden bar stemming from inside a glass slightly filled with water. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Return Gift detail 01 2020 Travel suitcase, wood, glass, water, electronic item boxes, clamp belt, immigration documents. 40” x 25” x 21”
A travel bag over-packed with boxes of American electronic items and immigration documents balanced on a chipped away wooden bar stemming from inside a glass slightly filled with water. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Return Gift detail 02 2020 Travel suitcase, wood, glass, water, electronic item boxes, clamp belt, immigration documents. 40” x 25” x 21”
A stoneware self portrait bust and a glass filled with water on either ends of a wooden beam balanced on one pole of an inverted found bedframe. The end of the other pole is inserted in a glass placed inside a soccer boot. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Self portrait in soccer boot 2021 Stoneware, found metal structure, wood. glass, water, football boot, gravity. 42" x 24" x 24"
A stoneware self portrait bust and a glass filled with water on either ends of a wooden beam balanced on one pole of an inverted found bedframe. The end of the other pole is inserted in a glass placed inside a soccer boot. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Self portrait in soccer boot detail 01 2021 Stoneware, found metal structure, wood. glass, water, football boot, gravity. 42" x 24" x 24"
A stoneware self portrait bust and a glass filled with water on either ends of a wooden beam balanced on one pole of an inverted found bedframe. The end of the other pole is inserted in a glass placed inside a soccer boot. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
Untitled - Self portrait in soccer boot detail 02 2021 Stoneware, found metal structure, wood. glass, water, football boot, gravity. 42" x 24" x 24"
Interacting participants engaging with an assortment of found objects - wood, plunger, pine cone, brick, tree branch, rope - to make “self-portraits” that best represents them. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
You, Sculptor 01 2021 Found wood, plunger, pine cone, brick, tree branch, rope. Dimensions vary
Interacting participants engaging with an assortment of found objects - wood, plunger, pine cone, brick, tree branch, rope - to make “self-portraits” that best represents them. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
You, Sculptor 02 2021 Found wood, plunger, pine cone, brick, tree branch, rope. Dimensions vary
Interacting participants engaging with an assortment of found objects - wood, plunger, pine cone, brick, tree branch, rope - to make “self-portraits” that best represents them. + Enlarge
Arnab Gan Choudhury
You, Sculptor 03 2021 Found wood, plunger, pine cone, brick, tree branch, rope. Dimensions vary
Statement

As human beings, we are in a constant state of flux. Our perception of our own selves keeps changing in varying degrees in accordance to both internal and external factors. Such factors may range from a change in our own temperament to a change in the environment that we inhabit. Our portraits are dynamic and continually transforming. 

 

My works are, in many ways, self-portraits that capture my own perception of the self in different points of time and in different environments. The self-portraits are construed using commonplace artifacts – objects of daily life; objects that have a universal identity; objects that also share a personal history. The objects we use go on, to a certain extent to define us; we leave a part of ourselves in the objects that we interact with on a daily basis. Objects then become ancillary components of our memories, they become catalysts of nostalgia, reminiscence and remembrance. 

The works embody a certain temporality reiterating the impermanence of the fleeting perceptions of the self at different points in time and in different environmental settings.

Interdisciplinary Sculpture (BFA) Students
Alexander Ross
Amelia "Meg Spectre" Sylvor Greenberg
Angelina Rose Mazenko
Arnab Gan Choudhury
David Correa - not exhibiting
Gabriel Jacobs - not exhibiting
Isabelle Valcarce
Joy Li
Julian Bellows
Lite Zhang (Ritter)
Marlon Antonio Moreno Membreno
Patricia (Tichacoco) Chevez
Sam Zanowski
Troy Taylor
Yiyi Han

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