Tales of Cursive Lands Exhibit to Open at Irma Freeman Center

The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination presents: Tales of Cursive Lands by sāgar and Ravindra Kamath, a two person painting exhibition opening Friday, August 4th 2023. Ravi and sāgar construct images evoking landscapes of heritage, memory, reality, and dreams. This dialogue between father and son chronicles feelings of transition and plurality, creating landscapes born of hybrid Indo-Western experiences. This two-person show features paintings created independently and collaboratively by Ravi and sāgar, exploring a variety of relationships with lands near and far, real and imagined.

Ravi is a self-taught artist from a small village named Panjadka in Karnataka, India and is now working in Pittsburgh, PA. With over four decades of experience in painting, Ravi's work has appeared across India and the American East Coast in magazines, galleries, and in private and public spaces through murals and floor paintings. He is a current member of the Associated Arts of Pittsburgh.

sāgar’s art education began at a young age with his father and continued through his time at Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12. sāgar received his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and his Master of Fine Arts in multidisciplinary art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art. sāgar has had exhibitions and performances in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Baltimore, New York, and Washington DC. In May 2023, sāgar was invited as an Artist-in-Residence for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art’s Centennial Festival.

Ravi and sāgar have been working together through Pinaka Art for three years. During this time, they have collaborated to create two murals for Adda Coffee&Tea (Northside and Shadyside locations), were selected as the Emerging Artist Award for the Three Rivers Arts Festival 2021, and performed live paintings for multiple events across the city. This exhibition is their first collaborative gallery show.

Tales of Cursive Lands opens First Friday, August 4th, 2023 with an artists’ reception 7-9 pm. Regular Gallery hours are Saturdays from 2-5 pm and by appointment. The Irma Freeman Center welcomes groups to book events and tours to experience this exhibit. For information, call us at 412-924-0634. Attached images are provided by the artists.

For more information about the artists, please visit www.irmafreeman.org,

www.pinakaart.com, and www.sagarkamath.com.