Out of India, 2014 - 2015

Sherry Wiggins traveled to Delhi, India to participate in a residency at the Sanskriti Foundation, where she investigated the work of Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 – 1990). Mohamedi is known for her meditative drawings and black-and-white photographs. Mohamedi developed a contemplative and spare visual language that drew from ancient Mughal architectural elements and landscape phenomena. With camera in hand and Mohamedi as her imaginary guide and artistic mirror, Wiggins visited Humayan’s Tomb, the Red Fort, an ancient stepwell (or baoli) and other magnificent sites in Delhi. Wiggins returned to her studio in the United States and began a new body of abstract drawings in India ink, graphite and gouache based on her experiences and black-and-white photographs of these ancient sites. Wiggins exhibited the drawings and photographs side by side in the exhibit titled Out of India, which was hosted by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky Auditorium. 

(installation shots by Robert Kittila)