On Thursday, February 12, Ariana Maki will present the first in our Spring 2015 Luncheon Series Program.
In 2006, the CU Art Museum (CUAM) exhibited Waves on the Turquoise Lake, the world’s first museum show dedicated to contemporary Tibetan art, a field that emerged only in the late 1990s. Since then, contemporary art from the Himalayas has become a hotbed of creativity and international attention. Beginning in February, CUAM will host Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art, which highlights photography, painting, sculpture and digital video created since 2008. For more information about this exhibit, visit http://www.contemporarytibetanart.org/.
Maki will discuss the upcoming exhibition at the CU Art Museum, Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art. She will highlight some of the artworks and artists involved in Anonymous, and how they express perspectives on modernization, global culture, the commodification of Buddhism, and the search for the self.
Maki is a lecturer in CU's Department of Art and Art History and Department of Religious Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History with a specialization in Buddhist Art. Ariana is also Assistant Curator at Himalayan Art Resources and maintains a research affiliation with the National Library and Archives of Bhutan.
Maki's talk will begin at 12:00 p.m. in the CAS Conference Room, located two doors north of Starbucks on University and Broadway.
