Opening—Jagdeep Raina: Bonds / Martine Gutierrez: Radiant Cut

Saturday, June 26, 2021
Opening Day: 12:00pm—5:00pm 
Reception: 12:00pm—2:00pm
Curator Remarks: 1:00pm

Location
Blaffer Art Museum

Visitor Information
This event is FREE and open to the public. Occupant capacity is limited. Walk-ins are welcome; we encourage visitors to make a reservation to guarantee entry. All visitors are required to complete a Covid-19 screening.

Blaffer Art Museum invites you to join us for the opening of two new exhibitions; Jagdeep Raina: Bonds and Martine Gutierrez: Radiant Cut.

Canadian artist Jagdeep Raina illustrates and reimagines stories and scenes from across the Kashmiri and Punjabi diasporas. Through drawings, writings, paintings, weavings, and animated films, Raina examines histories of transnational migration and mobility and their effects on contemporary life. The artist often draws upon oral history and archival research as source material for his work. In this process, he works to complicate and upend monolithic perceptions of these richly varied diasporas. Jagdeep Raina: Bonds marks the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States, featuring a selection of artworks made over the last seven years.

Martine Gutierrez: Radiant Cut is a micro-survey of the artist’s career, beginning with early series where mannequins and sex dolls are positioned as idealized partners and surrogates—circulating in an uncanny space of mimicry, desire, and plastic intimacy. Martine Gutierrez is a chameleon-like artist whose photos, performances, and videos de-construct glittery conventions of fashion, beauty, advertising and glamour. She instigates a similar re-invention of gender, race, and identity—translating her Mayan heritage and Guatemalan-American ethnicity into an evocative platform to (re)discover, embellish, and amplify bodies “outside of the binary.”

Artists Jagdeep Raina and Martine Gutierrez will not be present for this event, but please look for them to join us in-person this fall for featured programs presented in conjunction with the exhibitions.

Learn more: blafferartmuseum.org/exhibitions