Chitra Ganesh (American, b. 1975) is an omnivorous consumer of stories. For more than two decades, she has utilized the visual and narrative worlds of comics, epics, speculative fiction, folktales, zines, and myths to create a richly layered visual language. Chitra Ganesh: Impressions of Mythic Futures features the artist’s prints, comics, and hybrid works that move between printmaking and painting.
This exhibition foregrounds Ganesh’s sustained engagement with printmaking and global printed culture, illuminating how she uses these forms to enrich and complicate our understanding of narrative. Drawing on sources ranging from Amar Chitra Katha comics and South Asian mythology to feminist science fiction, modernist woodcuts, and politically engaged graphic art, Ganesh transforms inherited stories to expose what has been flattened, sanitized, and strategically omitted over time.
This exhibition includes a selection of printed ephemera from the artist’s personal collection, as well as printing blocks and tools, highlighting Ganesh’s inspirations, the material transformations within her prints, and the collaborative nature of her printmaking practice.
