General Opening
The gallery of modern art in Queensland has established an American artist; Neha Choksik’s work titled ‘Leaf Fell’ at the 7 th Asia Pacific Triennial of contemporary art. Her single-channel video 2008 of ‘Leaf Fell’ records an autumnal performance by rural Indian actors that portrait her traditional event. Removing a rural Peepal or Bodhi trees of its leaves by hand. Neha Choksik reproduced a scene from this film as a large monochromatic painting.
Museum
The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is located in Australia as part of the larger Queensland Cultural centre. It is the largest gallery for both modern and contemporary art in Australia and features exhibitions, both past and present. The first ever purchase from the gallery was in 1895 (Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, 2013) and has been more than a century of successful artistry and exhibitions.
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Artist Biography
The artist was born in the United States, moved to Mumbai at the age of four, but was back to the United States soon after to study art (Chong, 2013). The stay in India has however been very influential on the artist’s art. She says she drew a lot of inspiration from the people and the culture of India.
Art Movement
The techniques of shade that a colour produced by the addition of black represent the contrast between shapes without making it too simple. The texture of this media is an impasto that the paint applied very thickly onto the canvas ( Everdell,1994) therefore taking a closer look and depending on where it is viewed, it seems it to be three-dimension, and it stands out. It also represents visible her brush stroke movement and her emotional experiences to this landscape.
Painting
My first impression of Chokisik’s work was cool, fashionable and beautiful. The tone of colour was used naturally (monochromatically), and this cool colour emphasizes the mood of beauty c ommunicated in this work. It is evident that symbols reflect how the process will change the environment around the tree and the near-stripped tree became a symbol of decay and renewal (Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, 2011) .
Visual Analysis
Most Importantly, this work is a response to a traditional event, the message that Neha Choksik attempting to conve y in this work is that she is a Hindu, so that culturally she needs to pray for that tree, it is way of her, and this is the way she can approach, it is the sense of self that she has been experienced. This work is traditional; she says that ‘tell the tree why she needs to do what she is doing, and letting it know that this is important for its tree, for her and welfare’s tomorrow.’ This is self-portrait that she made and it is a way of her doing it by herself it is about her (Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, 2011) .
Her efforts to create a feeling of absence is explained as a “desire to clarify life in materialist terms,” she states that “the business of living is the business of dying, and how do you make sense of all that? I guess this is my way of making sense of it, this grappling with materials, stuff, even with the quick of life” (Chong, 2013) .
Conclusion
The most striking part of her work is the great risk that she takes in expressing her vulnerability. She expressed her personal experience and her tradition greatly well; it represents her identity and its beauty. Neha also expressed her persistence and slow process of engagement which involved a process of time, change and liveliness.
References
Chong, S. (2013). Indian Artist Explores Absence Through Presence. Retrieved 13 October 2017, from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/.../Indian-artist-explores-absence-through-presence.
Everdell , W. R. (1994).The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-century Thought , University of Chicago Press, p4.
"Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland"(2013). Dynamic Architecture. Australian Institute of Architects. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
