SOCAL | Celebrate the Holidays with ArtTable at the Fowler Museum

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Join SoCal ArtTable for a festive evening at our annual holiday celebration, held this year in the lovely inner courtyard of the Fowler Museum at UCLA.  Come socialize and enjoy drinks and nibbles with fellow ArtTable members and their invited guests (prospective members only, please).  2019 has been an exciting time for ArtTable SoCal, a year filled with wonderful programs and growth, and we look forward to celebrating with you!   During the course of the evening, we will be treated to a private viewing and walkthrough of the beautiful exhibition Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, the artist’s first mid-career survey. Banerjee’s sumptuous installations and sculptures assembled from myriad found objects, both natural and manmade, together with her exquisite paintings, both fascinate and intrigue while addressing the crucial global geopolitical, environmental and social issues we face today. Born in Kolkata, India in 1963, Banerjee was raised in the United Kingdom and the United States. After receiving a B.S. degree in polymer engineering and working as a polymer research chemist, she left the profession to pursue an M.F.A. from Yale University. Based in New York City, Banerjee has exhibited internationally, with notable solo exhibitions at the Freer|Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Musée Guimet, Paris. Her works are held in private and public collections worldwide, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum; Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; and Centre Pompidou. The exhibition will be open to our guests from 6:00-7:30 pm with a 30-minute walkthrough at 6:30 pm. Light fare and refreshments will be served. For self-service parking instructions: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/visit/ Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered! Thank you to SoCal Co-chair Susan Power and SoCal members Kris Lewis and Libby O’Kane. Image: Rina Banerjee (b. 1963), Her captivity was once someone’s treasure and even pleasure but she blew and flew away took root which grew, we knew this was like no other feather, a third kind of bird that perched on vine intertwined was neither native nor her queens daughters, a peculiar other., 2011. Anglo-Indian pedestal 1860, Victorian birdcage, shells, feathers, gourds, grape vines, coral, fractured Charlotte doll heads, steel knitted mesh with glass beads, Kenyan tourist sculptures, apple gourds. 7 x 7 x 6 ft. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Purchased with funds from the Michel Roux Acquisitions Fund, 2016.20. © Rina Banerjee. Image courtesy Rina Banerjee Archives.