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The Andy Warhol Museum Presents The Word of God(ESS) by Artist Chitra Ganesh

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum presents its latest special exhibition, The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh. The exhibition is curated by Tresa Varner, curator of education and interpretation. The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh is on view through September 4, 2011. Chitra Ganesh’s artwork combines different visual languages, canons and cultures, including comic books, Bollywood cinema and iconic goddesses from Hindu folklore. Ganesh creates cross-cultural narratives about sexuality and power that sit in comic book frames where interior thoughts are revealed in bubbles or – as in her wall installations – hover in psychedelic space with three-dimensional elements that protrude into contemporary reality. This exhibition includes artworks based on the comic, Amar Chitra Katha, which Ganesh read as a youth and that is still in print today. The enormously popular comic (over 90 million printed) began in the 1