Luxation I (Primary Title)
Tsherin Sherpa, born 1968 (Artist)
This multi-canvas painting comes from a body of work that Tsherin Sherpa calls his Fragments series. Its subject is the same figure as the wooden sculpture in front of it. Sixteen excerpted details from a complete image of Vajrabhairava have been assembled by Sherpa into a dynamic composition that conveys the deity’s ferocious power. The title of the work, made after Nepal’s catastrophic 2015 earthquake, means dislocation or displacement and references—as does the painting’s jumbled structure—that disaster’s devastation as well as the cultural dislocation experienced by the artist and so many Tibetans living in diaspora.
Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits | The Artist
3:52Tsherin Sherpa visits Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits at VMFA in 2022 along with Dr. John Henry Rice, VMFA's E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art.
Curator’s Opening Talk | A Conversation with Tsherin Sherpa
1:07:22On Thursday, February 17, 2022 Dr. John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art participated in a conversation with artist Tsherin Sherpa. This video recording was made possible by The National Endowment for the Humanities.
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