For his first solo museum exhibition, artist Sujay Shah (SCAD B.F.A., painting, 2013) presents bold, colorful paintings that depict wild animals in lush domestic interiors. In Shah’s works, fauna native to his homeland — lions, zebras, gazelles, leopards, and wildebeest — express their feral nature in spaces adorned with big-game taxidermy hunting trophies and Victorian-style furnishings commonly found in luxury tourist safari lodges in Africa. By juxtaposing scenes of animal barbarity with symbols of Western colonial sophistication, Shah upends preconceived notions of what it means to be civilized.
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Earlier Event: January 5
SCAD Museum of Art: Saul Steinberg: "SAUL STEINBERG: DRAWING, LOOKING, LIVING"
Later Event: January 12
Cedar House Gallery: "2024 Local Artist Showcase Opening Reception"