# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2015-12-03T20:56:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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#ThrowbackThursday 
In the fall of 1998, Jayashree Chakravarty had her New York City debut at The Drawing Center.

The New York Times' Holland Cotter: "Jayashree Chakravarty, a 42-year-old painter from India, is making her New York solo debut with this beautiful, formally inventive show. It consists of a cluster of wide scrolls made of layered, glue-stiffened paper that twist down from the gallery ceiling and curl across the floor. The format is vaguely reminiscent of Bengali folk scrolls called patas, which unroll to reveal mythological narratives. But the content of Ms. Chakravarty's work is of a very different kind: contemporary, specifically urban. Banks of windows float upward, high-rise style. Directive street signs -- ''walk,'' ''stop,'' ''no parking'' -- appear here and there as well as pages from city telephone books. Everything is wrapped in smoggy clouds of hatch lines and swirling strokes. The result has the episodic, sensation-packed verve of a first morning's walk through the streets of a strange city. The energy is high, but in Ms. Chakravarty's hands, also sweet. Her palette is a pacific mix of blue, brown, gray and black; the floating windows are often painted in gold. The paper surfaces -- worn, patchy, rumpled -- attest to hands-on work, and suggest quilting as much as painting. In short, it is ambitious painting that wears monumentality lightly. All of these scrolls could easily be rolled up for suitcase transport. [...]organized by Peter Nagy, an artist and the director of Gallery Nature Morte in New Delhi.” #TBT #JayashreeChakravarty #scrolls

Photo: A partial installation view of an exhibition of scrolls, made of layered, glue-stiffened paper, by Jayashree Chakravarty.

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