Kanishka Raja at Allston Skirt.(Boston)

From: Art in America | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In his recent gallery installation, "Birth of an Earth," Kanishka Raja showed three large paintings (60 by 84 inches each, oil on canvas over panel) and one smaller piece (26 by 35 1/2 inches, oil on inkjet print on canvas). In addition, he swathed the floor in deep blue, wall-to-wall shag carpeting and painted an existing steel post with allover brown-and-black, faux-wood finish.

These extra touches echoed the institutional decor in Raja's colorful paintings of mundane public rooms, where skewed, bisected spaces are arbitrarily flattened, angled, foreshortened, or variously ...

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