Thursday 14th Oct 2010 - Sunday 14th Nov 2010
AT THE EDGE
Gallery Maya is proud to present an exhibition of works by a Group of Indian Contemporary Artists - "At the Edge" which opens at Gallery Maya in Notting Hill on October 14th. The show comprises of eight specially selected works from a group of eminent artists from different regions, backgrounds and influences to create an evocative tableau of the changing contemporary realities of India and exemplify the significance of contemporary Indian art today. Each work was chosen as being one of the best examples of the artist´s ouevre.

Thursday 15th Apr 2010 - Saturday 8th May 2010
HEALTH OF THE PLANET BY STEVE MILLER
These images by Steve Miller are part of a series about the Amazon entitled "Health of the Planet". The forests of the Amazon are the lungs of our planet. This project gives Brazil a medical check up by taking x-rays of the plants of the Amazon.

While all the photography arrests motion, it is only the X ray that allows us to climb inside a particular moment and subject and parse the structure of its beauty within. Miller removes Amazonian plants, flowers, and animals from their usual context and fixes them under the powerful, scrutinizing eye of the digital X-ray. There, an inner world rises to the outer:orchids perch on lacy roots, ladyslipper stems dissolve under the constraints of the botanist´s wire, seeds nestle in translucent pods, a mouse rests in the belly of a half-coiled sepent. What was hidden is now revealed. Acrylic silk-screen strokes disrupt or frame many of the images, obscuring and highlighting their ephermerality.

Miller´s work is a diagnosis of the relationship between the organic and the technical, the developing and the decaying, the empty and the full, and in carefully rendered black and white photography pressured by paint, that diagnosis is both glamorous and unsettling.

Tuesday 23rd Sep 2008 - Wednesday 15th Oct 2008
VIETNAMS EMERGING GENERATION
Gallery Maya is pleased to announce An Exhibition of Young Contemporaries 2008: Vietnam‘s Emerging Generation. Dang Thao Ngoc (daughter of Dang Xuan Hoa) is joined together with her husband, Ta Dinh Khiem, and Duong Thuy Duong in this group exhibition to introduce some of the finest emerging young talent in contemporary Vietnamese painting.

Ngoc has chosen like her father to focus on the people around her as subjects for her work, and uses her distinctive style to incorporate them into her work. Khiem in contrast uses the abstract form to express his inner feelings and his communication with his surroundings. Duong, who has lived and worked in Germany, uses portraits as a form of expression reflecting her feelings on her homeland..

Ngoc and Khiem graduated from Hanoi University of Fine Art in 2005, while Duong is presently continuing her painting studies at the Halle College of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstien, Germany. Group exhibitions include “Half of Year” in Dong Phong Gallery, Hanoi, and “The Other Side” in maison de arts, Hanoi.

Private view on 23 September, 2008 from 6:00 9:00 pm.

Thursday 15th May 2008 - Saturday 14th Jun 2008
THEM & ME
Gallery Maya are pleased to announce the inaugural London solo-show of Dang Xuan Hoa. Hoa is one of the first of a new generation of Vietnamese artists to gain international recognition in the early 1990´s. Encouraged by his former generation (including Nguyen Tu Nghiem, one of Vietnam´s premier national artists), Hoa works to express his own unique Vietnamese sensibility; "I paint not what I see, but what lies beneath what I see." His works juxtapose a myriad of objects found in a typical Vietnamese home: fruit bowls, oil lamps, ceramic vases, lotus leaves. The flattened perspective and fauvist colours are often reminiscent of Matisse.

Born 1959 in Nam Dinh, Vietnam, Hoa graduated from Hanoi College of Fine Arts in 1983. He is one of Hanoi´s “Gang of Five”, together with artists Tran Luong, Ha Tri Hieu, Pham Quang Vinh and Viet Dung. A group of young Vietnamese artists who share a common expressionistic-abstractionist orientation combined with traditional humanistic ideas, they have been exhibiting regularly since the group‘s formation in the mid-eighties.

His work is included in the collections of the Vietnamese National Fine Arts Museum and The Singapore National Fine Arts Museum, as well as in private collections inside and outside of Vietnam.

Dang Xuan Hoa currently lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Wednesday 12th Mar 2008 - Saturday 12th Apr 2008
HEADS AND FACES
Heads and Faces brings together a selection of paintings, works on paper and sculpture by some of India‘s leading contemporary figurative artists. The exhibition includes the haunting faces typical of Anjolie Ela Menon, one of India‘s most important female artists, as well as drawings by M F Husain, Souza and Amitava Das. Included amongst the sculpture is one of the dramatic asymmetrical bronzes of Bimal Kundu an understated sculptor based in Calcultta. J M S Mani brings lighter and brighter themes through his distinctive style of reverse paintings of exotic street people in Rajasthan.

Thursday 6th Dec 2007 - Saturday 19th Jan 2008
ON BOARD THE LOTUS EXPRESS
Having exhibited in New York, Russia and Taipei, this is the first London show of Taiwanese born Chiang YoMei‘s work at Gallery Maya. The show features paintings and drawings which explore her central theme of impermanence and are inspired by her deep involvement in Buddist Philosophy. A multi media artist she uses disparate materials, incense ash, sand, feathers, tissue, scrim, hair mirrors or metallic powders with which she creates richly textured paintings on canvas and paper.
Her work reflects the transient and fragile nature of life. She has said: “All relative phenomena are composite, things are not fixed; they are constantly changing. Anything beholden to a linear concept of time is in fact an illusion.” Her interest lies in the space between form and formlessness, manifestation and dissolution

Wednesday 3rd Oct 2007 - Saturday 1st Dec 2007
VIETNAMESE CONTEMOPRARY ART EXHIBITION
Showing Paintings by Nguyen Quang Huy and Nguyen Minh Thanh

Wednesday 14th Mar 2007 - Saturday 14th Apr 2007
CONSTRUCTION/DECONSTRUCTION OF MY CITY
ANJUM SINGH and SHEILA MAKHIJANI

Opening evening - Wednesday 14th March 6-9pm

The metropolis with its changing skyline provides the grist for the creative mills of Anjum Singh and Sheila Makhijani, two artists who live in New Delhi. As the winds of globalisation blow over the subcontinent, its capital goes into overdrive to project the face of the new global India. In 2010 the city will host the Commonwealth games so Delhi wants to strut its stuff, constructing a new identity for itself to reflect this newly won self confidence. Old structures get dismantled while new ones mushroom in their place in a complex continuum of construction and deconstruction. Anjum Singh and Sheila Makhijani negotiate the glitz and glitter, the grit and grime of the city they have grown up in. As they explore the changing face of the metropolis, dwelling on it‘s insecurities and aspirations each artist arrives at her own unique visual vocabulary to reflect this engagement with the city.

If it is demolition and debris that informs Anjum Singh‘s oeuvre then it is sites of construction that mark Sheila Makhijani‘s work. As buildings sprout forth, the artist is fascinated by the labyrinth of lines that their creation invokes. Unlike the edgy, anxiety ridden works by Singh, Makhijani‘s small format canvases have a joyous, yet restless energy about them. She follows the rhythm of her lines as they carry her off on a roller coaster ride. Abandoning herself with glee to their whimsicalities she lets them take her chuffing down a train track or soaring up a scaffolding. Both Anjum Singh and Sheila Makhijani grapple with the city as it finds itself in a flux of demolition and construction producing works that speak of erasure and creation, of dashed hopes and emerging dreams.

Wednesday 17th Jan 2007 - Saturday 10th Mar 2007
A COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE PAINTINGS
The exhibition includes works by Minh, Dung, Ha and Hoa.

Tuesday 21st Nov 2006 - Monday 18th Dec 2006
THE ENSHRINED RELIC - MONA RAI
This is Mona Rai´s first solo London show.