Artist talk: Thukral and Tagra

Join SCAD Museum of Art exhibiting artists Thukral and Tagra for a talk exploring their newly opened exhibition. The duo will speak to the use of dynamic imagery in their collective practice, which encompasses painting, installation, and digital drawing. Hear directly from the artists as they expound on the digital and natural influences that manifest in the hyperrealistic paintings in their series Arboretum.

About the artists
Jiten Thukral (b. 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India) and Sumir Tagra (b. 1979, New Delhi, India) work collaboratively across a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, interactive game design, video, and performance. Expanding the scope of what art can do, their multimodal sensory and immersive environments originate new formats of public engagement liberated from the mediated, disciplinary world. Their recent work engages with the interpretation of Indian mythological narratives and symbols and the ongoing social ramifications of the agrarian crisis throughout India. Thukral and Tagra have exhibited internationally at institutions including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart, Germany; Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Manchester Museum, U.K.; and Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, among many others.

This event is free and open to the public.