UDAIYAN

D Udaiyan
D. Udaiyan

Artist Statement

I am moving my painting away from the mere formal to a new form which I call Declarative Art  (See personal essays and philosophy for more details). In this respect, I am surveying a link between Guattari and Deleuze, my own thoughts on semantics and syntactics in a semiotic context and bridging the gap to the pragmatics.  This will take some time. I intend to spend 3 to10 years connecting the Jones motif to the disparate elements of Deleuzian thought and hopefully at the end will come to some inferences that haven't been touched on before.

My artistic influences are varied but include past masters such as Bouguereau, Bishandas, Patenier & Sahibdin as well as cotemporary lowbrow artists like Mark Ryden, Marion Peck and Joe Coleman. Of course, it goes without saying that my big Stuckist influences continue to be: Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Ella Guru and Charles Thomson. I am also part of the Indian Artists Network and am currently shifting my consciousness around Renu Iyer and Aloke Kumar Paul and the stuckists Edgeworth Johnstone and Shelly Li.

D. Udaiyan 2010 No Fear Gallery 

Exhibitions/Articles

(I have only included my lastest and notable exhibitions)

"THE LOVE OF ART VARIETY SHOW" - aid of Tranz Tanz and Nandavu Community School Project. Thursday 4 August 2011, 6:30 until late at The Aquire Arts Gallery, 155 Battersea Park Road Vauzhall, London, SW8 4BU. The event is aimed at raising funds to support victims of HIV in Tanzania and to assist children in Zambia through accesibility to health care and education. To find more about the charities please go to http://www.transtanz.org and http://junglejunction.info/theschool.htm

ATHENSART PHILANTHROPIC EXHIBITION International Exhibition representing: "The Positive Side of Life" , Vienna – TRAVEL GALLERY, June 15 - 30, Vienna Austria

"Outsider Art" Exhibition - "Everyone is normal until you get to know them" The Barn - creative arts club, Old Kiln Courtyard, 3 The Borough, Fanrham Surrey, GU9 7NA, April 8th 2011.

THE ENEMIES OF ART. UK, Prague and international Stuckists. Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG. 19 April - 2 May 2011

Waldemar Januszczak's Giant Mangofied Tumor. A joint show. More details to follow.

Portrait of Charlotte Higgens Show. Wednesday 16th August Gala Exhibition Space Hobson Street, Cambridge.

Jones and Needham - a series of still lives and portraits. A Cambridge Stuckist Collective Exhibition with some international guests. Wednesday 19th July 2011. Rose and Crown Gallery, Occupation Road, Cambridge.

An Hero - A celebration of Beauty. Solo Exhibition. Curated by D. Udaiyan, Oct 13-19 2010 Nolias Gallery, London.

Under the Cover of Romantic Anonymity. Group Stuckist show in Athens, Greece, Curated by Odysseus Yakoumakis, sponsored by Ash-In-Art, May 2010.

Eon Pais esti paizon - Group show in Samothrace the island of the Cabirian mysteries curated by Polyxene Kasda, Katerina Kaitsou, Dores Sacquegna, Pierre Chirouze. Island of Samothrace Greece, Aug 2010

The Semiotic Show, Group show of the Joseph Abrams collective. Curated by D. Udaiyan, Jul 2010

Enemies of Art Show - Group show at the XVIII JESUS LANE Gallery - curated by D. Udaiyan, Cambridge, Mar 17 - Mar 24 2010

Stuckist Christmas Sale - Group show at the Matisonn Burgin Gallery - curated by Edgeworth Johnstone and Shelley Li, London, Nov 28 - Dec 5 2009

Art In Mind - Group show at Brick Lane Gallery - curated by Tony Taglianetti. Brick Lane, London, Nov 24-Dec 7 2009

Gargling Sky of Gergeri, Unesco's The International Year of Astronomy 2009 - curated by Polyxene Kasda, Chrysa Vathainaki, Pierre Chirouze, Donatella Bisutti. Aug 2009 Gergeri, Municipality of Rouvas, Crete, Greece.

'Stuck in Wood Green' - Group show - curated by Edgeworth Johnstone and Shelley Li, London, Feb 28th - Apr 30th 2009

In the Spirit of Olympics - Group show - Curated by Sneha Rateria. Calcutta, India 25th - 31st September 2008

My painting 'football' was accepted into the Olympic Fine Art (OFA) 2008 show in Beijing 2008.

Letters exhibition Group Show - Le Arie del tempo Curated by Luisella Carretta - the Sala Lignea in the Berio Library (Genoa) in early 2009.

"Poets and landscapes: Art and nature" Biennele di Alessandria, Italy Sep 2008, Curated by Elvira Mancuso.

The Stuckists -An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize - View Two Gallery,Liverpool, UK 6 - 29 Nov 2008

I have exhibited in shows in the Stuckism International Gallery in Shorditch and took part in the 'War on Blair' show. - (2003-2008) (Shoreditch, London)

Marijke Logan's anti-war show in Arizona 2003.

Portrait commissions for Dr A. Minassian 1997, Mrs S. Munisami (2004) (ACCA), N Herkanidu (2006), L Postgate (director of Laurence Postgate Ltd) (2008).

Represented by NoFear Galleries in the UK.

Press

Article in Jonathan Jones Blog on the Guardian website. Monday 5 December 2011.
Article in Art of England: Issue 74, Page 61 (October 2010)
Article in Newsweek, Polish edition. 6 June 2010.
Article in Culture Now in Greece  25 May 2010
Article in Jonathan Jones Blog on the Guardian website. Thursday 18 March 2010
Article in Art of England Issue 51 Nov 2008.
Image credit in Spoonfed Apr 2011.


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