Peak Art Gallery is pleased to present Starving Artists, featuring the work of Tibetan Contemporary artists living in refugee settlements in India.    The opening reception is being held on Friday, August 20th, 5:00-7:00 p.m at The Attic Gallery in New Delhi.  Thereafter the exhbit will move return to McLoed Ganj and be desplayed from Sept. 18th- Oct. 3rd. 

The starving artists were named two centuries ago in Paris, they were romantics who chose to forgo physical comfort to live their artistic vision. Peak Art Gallery is commited to promoting the work of Tibetan Contemporary artists; they too  are living in a community set apart.  Like the starving artist guilds of Paris, the Tibetan refugee settlements in India are alive with creativity, but there is an additional ingredient, a dogged determination to not only exist in exile--but to thrive and engage with the global community.  

The group exhibit incorporates the works of eight Tibetan Contemporary Artists working in various medium including, oil water colour, and mixed medium.  Each of the pieces in the exhibit offers a poignant reflection of refugee life.  All of the artists  find  inspiration in different contexts.   Dr. Dawa the former director of the Tibetan Medical Institute, Men-Tsee-Khang, frequently paints landscapes that he encounterd when he was collecting natural herbs to use in traditional  medicine.  Lobsang Dorjee is entirely self-taught and works with varied themes, such as the Dalai Lama and climate change.   Sonam Wangchuck is passionate about painting traditional Tibetan themes; he does so in order to share the richness of Tibetan Culture with his viewer.

When first confronted with the collection the diversity of prospective is largely apparent.   Each artist offers differing representation, and the juxtaposition between the hyper-real work of Sonam Wangchuck and Dr. Dawa, and the abstract nature of Tenzin Dakpa’s and Dukte’s works reflects the varied experiences of living in exile.