ASHOK RAJAMANI

pulitzer prize-luminary commended author

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    NEW!  GREENPOINT GALLERY SHOW, OCTOBER 12, 2018!

    THE SELF-PORTRAIT COLLECTION

    Ashok's life-changing accident -- the explosion of his brain at the age of 25 -- changed his art;  from devoting his works to subject matter of all sorts, he began focusing primarily on self-portraits. In doing so, he used his art to explore the nature of his own life, his own being, under the lens of having faced his own annihilation.  The following are his self-portraits from 2018, with his personal descriptions and meanings of the works.  Welcome to the faces of a survivor: a brain-damaged, blinded, epileptic, metal-skulled, amnesiac, Hindu, brown-redneck, brain tumor-bearing, Indian American biomythographer from New York City.

     

     

    TRIMURTI: GODHEAD
    GLARE
    BRAIN DAMAGE
    TENTACLES
    ASHOKJESUS/BLACKJESUS
    CHOP CHOP
    ATTEMPTING
    BEJEWELL
    EXPLODE
    SITTING
    BRAINY
    MOTHER SUPERIOR
    sight
    VISHWAROOPA
    THE DRILLING SLEEP
    TO KILL ASHOKINGBIRD
    HOSPITALIZED
    FACE IN MOSAIC TILES
    ASHOK 1.0, ASHOK 2.0
    HOPE
    SUCH A CRANIOTOMITE
    THE GOPIS
    DAMAGE IN UTERO
    MANY
    ANYWHERE BUT HERE