Rupy C. Tut / The Figure and the Story

Crown Point Press announces two complementary exhibitions. One features new etchings by Rupy C. Tut and the other exhibition, The Figure and the Story, features prints by four figurative artists: Mamma Andersson, Marcel Dzama, Chris Ofili, and Shahzia Sikander. These artists enliven and expand the figurative tradition while reflecting on contemporary issues.

Rupy C. Tut presents six new prints by the Indian-born, Oakland-based artist. Tut worked for two weeks in the Crown Point Press studio in the spring of 2024. Five of the six prints feature a female form surrounded by an elemental landscape. Where she begins to flow centers on a figure floating on her back amid maze-like blue lines surrounded by snowy mountains. The figure looks up while the viewer is looking down at her. In the small monochromatic etching Postcard from my hiding place, a figure rests fully immersed in a bed of lush green mango leaves. In the print titled A matter of presence, a woman dressed in blue flies through a red energy field. She symbolizes Tut’s experience of working in intaglio for the first time. Tut presents possibilities of how to be seen and how to see oneself, metaphorically and literally.