February 22, 2023
These artworks are processing, unraveling, and reacting to the Dobbs decision.
Us, a stunning black-and-white photograph by Marzena Abrahamik at Weinberg/Newton, shows happy messy motherhood, while a couple of paces away, Udita Upadhyaya’s three-page letter, From an Abortion Doula, details the immeasurable sacrifice, shame, and grief that an unknown abortion-seeker faces. At Woman Made Gallery, Frederica Diane Huff’s crayon portrait of a woman gazing out from beneath a pile of floppy, crawling, crying babies needs little explanation, but her title, Biological Bondage, says it all anyway.
August 14, 2018
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. This interview is the first of three with interdisciplinary artist Udita Upadhyaya about “nevernotmusic” — a solo exhibition of scores activated by curated, collaborative performances — and her process of developing these scores into a book. In early March, on the last day of her show “nevernotmusic” at Roman Susan, I met with Udita to discuss her processes of creating and “gifting” performance scores, transforming the scores into an installation, and learning from performers’ interpretations.
Follow @uditau on Twitter and Instagram and check out her book launch at TriTriangle on September 8, 2018, at 7pm.
July 30, 2018
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. This interview is the first of three with interdisciplinary artist Udita Upadhyaya about “nevernotmusic” — a solo exhibition of scores activated by curated, collaborative performances — and her process of developing these scores into a book. In early March, on the last day of her show “nevernotmusic” at Roman Susan, I met with Udita to discuss her processes of creating and “gifting” performance scores, transforming the scores into an installation, and learning from performers’ interpretations.
Follow @uditau on Twitter and Instagram and check out her book launch at TriTriangle on September 8, 2018, at 7pm.
Udita Upadhyaya: Deconstructing Loss... an interview with Inside/Within
Inside/Within is a constantly updating archive devoted to physically exploring the creative spaces of Chicago's emerging and established artists Support for this project was provided by The Propeller Fund, a joint administrated grant from Threewalls and Gallery 400 at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chicago Reader Reviews Ms. Upadhyaya's work at Triump Gallery's Show: Dangerous Professors
Hooligan Magazine: An Artist Profile
Words & Cloth, An Afternoon with Udita Upadhyaya by Allie Shyer
Public Explorations of Anxiety
