Jai Chuhan

Small Paintings

Jai Chuhan, Donald Ryan, Hannah Marsh

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Hurtwood Press
16 April 2024

Painting & paintings

Series: Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series

Small Paintings presents the gestural, intimate and hauntingly beautiful paintings by Indian-born British artist Jai Chuhan from her solo exhibition at Qrystal Partners, London.

Small Paintings presents the gestural and hauntingly beautiful paintings by Indian-born British artist Jai Chuhan. The book showcases the art created for her solo exhibition of the same name at Qrystal Partners in London in the summer of 2023.

Chuhan often depicts lone figures in indistinct, nebulous interiors, exploring love and alienation. In other works, couples are huddled together, potentially locked in an embrace. The paintings evoke the psychological tensions between genders, agency and subjection, the familiar and the unreal. Their small scale creates a sense of voyeurism, reminiscent of what is felt when one looks through a window. Glimpses of bodies are shown in expressive poses that speak to moments of privacy, intimacy and vulnerability.

Chuhan emigrated to London with her family in the late 1960s and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in the 1970s. Her practice engages deeply with histories of painting as she navigates transculturalism and the female gaze. Her influences, such as Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, are evident in her richly coloured and textured works. But, Chuhan's position is distinctly different; her perspective refuses bravado and probes into ideas of empathy.

Donald Ryan, co-founder of Qrystal Partners and Small Paintings' curator, contributes a foreword contextualising the exhibition and delineating Chuhan's key artistic concerns. In her essay, Hannah Marsh, assistant curator of contemporary British art at the Tate, ruminates on the idea of being seen, holding space and how Chuhan's art speaks on its own terms.

By (artist): Jai Chuhan
Text by: Hannah Marsh
Introduction by: Donald Ryan
Imprint: Hurtwood Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9780903696760
ISBN 10: 0903696762
Series: Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Pages: 124
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword The World of Art Is My Home by Hannah Marsh Installation Photography at Qrystal Partners, London Paintings Biographies

Jai Chuhan is an Indian-born British artist. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally in Italy, Belgium, Singapore and America and in the UK at Tate Liverpool; Barbican, London; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Ikon, Birmingham; Tramway, Glasgow; Arnolfini, Bristol; Commonwealth Institute, London; Horizon Gallery, London; Watermans Arts Centre, London and Pitzhanger, London. Solo exhibitions include Small Paintings, Qrystal Partners, London (2023); Remodel: Painting Studio, Asia Triennial, Manchester (2018); Decanting Desire, Liverpool Biennial (2014) and J Chuhan: Recent Paintings, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool (2013). Her paintings and drawings are in the collections of the Tate, the Arts Council Collection and Cartwright Hall in Bradford.

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Jai Chuhan

Small Paintings

Jai Chuhan, Donald Ryan, Hannah Marsh

$49.99

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