Join SAWCC on November 13 at 7 pm at Pen + Brush for a special walkthrough of Talkin’ Bout a Revolution, a solo exhibition spotlighting the work of Pyaari Azaadi, SAWCC founder and former board member. We will be joined by Pyaari Azaadi herself, as well as artist collaborators of the exhibition, Aishwarya Moudgal, Ananya Malagi, and Zanib Ahmad.
To learn more about the exhibition, visit Pen + Brush’s website here. SAWCC is thrilled to celebrate Talkin’ Bout a Revolution, marking an important moment in Azaadi’s career, offering audiences a fuller picture of and deeper engagement with her evolving practice and its cultural, political, and aesthetic significance. Works on view will span the artist’s career and will celebrate feminist and queer-bodies, specifically through Azaadi’s South Asian identity and with social justice playing a heavy role on each works’ surface.
To attend the event, please RSVP here. We look forward to seeing you there!
About the Artist
Pyaari Azaadi (she/her; b. 1969, Bombay, India) immigrated to the US in 1984. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Pyaari has continued to intertwine studio and social practice, art and activism, creating transformative work with Queer, BIPoC communities in New York for three decades. She founded the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) in New York (1997) and London (2004). She is a recipient of the Huntington Arts Council Fellowship and a grant from New York Foundation for the Arts. Azaadi has exhibited internationally including a critically acclaimed solo exhibition, Flower Headed Children at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles in 2022. Group exhibitions include P.S.1/MoMA, the Queens Museum of Art, and Asia Society in New York, 798 Beijing Biennial and Guangzhou Triennial in China, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, IVAM in Valencia, Spain, and the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany.