San
Diego, CA – SONABAI – Another Way of Seeing, opens at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park on Sunday, July 26, 2009 and closes
October 16, 2010. It is the first exhibition in the western hemisphere to
feature the art of a remarkable self-taught artist, who as a
young bride, was forced by her husband to live in tot al isolation for 15 years. During that
oppressed time, she saw only her husband and their one child, a son.
Separated from the outside world, Sonabai
populated the interior mud walls of her home with colorful, whimsical
sculptures created exclusively from her own
vivid imagination. Unfamiliar with any art
outside the limited decorations of her village, she invented a style all her
own and unique in Indian art. When her confinement ended and
villagers entered her home, they were astounded by her vision.