INDIA UNFOLDING
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMORARY ART
June 14 through July 20, 2003
India is a country where the senses overlay and infuse one another. India Unfolding is a multi-media, interactive exhibition, challenging pre-conceptions and opening doors into new experiences. For the past thirty-two years, Stephen Huyler has conducted a photographic survey of India. His images focus upon the private moments of daily and seasonal life: expressions of intimacy and personality, of creativity and community. As a cultural anthropologist, Huyler has had unique access to homes, temples, and rituals. Huyler's shows have always been known for their unusual perceptions. In India Unfolding, he pushes through boundaries, printing his colorful images on fabric, brushed metal, and Plexiglas, combining sculptural forms with interactive displays and videos to create the overlapping veils of sensory experience that he finds so common in India.

Maine Contemporary Art

For the past fifty years, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine, has exhibited the leading edge of contemporary artists living in Maine. The non-profit gallery gave Stephen Huyler a carte blanche to create any exhibition of his work he chose. India Unfolding is Huyler's response: an entirely new show. Public and critical response has been very positive.

       Read the letter from CMCA's Curator, Bruce Brown.

Blue Stairway

Huyler and friends transformed the stairway leading into the upstairs gallery into a fitting entrance to the show, painting it in three pigments of blue to complement photographs of the blue city of Jodhpur.

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Transparencies [ view ]
Blue Archway [ view ]
Holi Man [ view ]
Enterance to Upper Gallery [ view ]
Blue City Escher #1 [ view ]
Hands & Indian Art

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Hands [ view ]
Shaved Designs [ view ]
Shoulder Painting [ view ]
Earring [ view ]

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Artist's Statement

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Artists Statement [ view ]
Orange Wall & Goat Tree

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Dashboard Prayers Goat Tree
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India: Orange, Green & Yellow

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Baroda Priest [ view ]
Badami Swirls [ view ]
Boat Race [ view ]
Glee for Ganesh [ view ]
Turbaned Textures [ view ]

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