Art Review
An Indian-American Artist’s Self in Pieces
In his new paintings, Sangram Majumdar seems to be driven by the desire to hold together the different aspects of his dual identity.
Sangram Majumdar
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Sangram Majumdar
“There is no time in painting. A microsecond can last forever.”
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Relearning to Draw with Strips of Colored Tape
You could say that Sangram Majumdar is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.
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More than Meets the Eye
If you see lots of work by different artists, you are going to make your own connections.
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Rough Collages and Finished Works Cut from the Same Cloth
The expressive quality of collage across all manner of media, from literature and music to the visual arts, came to mind while viewing Rough Cut, an exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery.
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Necessary Ambiguity: Sangram Majumdar’s Recent Work
In a media-riddled world where images rapidly circulate, moving from momentary commodity (“gone viral”) to forgotten waste, Sangram Majumdar is interested in “what stays.”
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Can I Get a Witness? Working from Observation
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects is a long and narrow space, somewhere between a bowling alley and a railroad apartment, on the Lower East Side. It is within this rather confined space that Marshall Price, curator at the uptown National Academy of Art, installed eleven paintings by artists committed
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The Struggle for Coherence
The other day, at a small cocktail party, a literary agent told me that he liked writers who knew and wrote for their audience. Our conversation soon sputtered out because I didn’t see any value in disagreeing with him. A few minutes later, a writer confided that he would keep working on a manuscrip