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Sri-Lankan art: out of the Gallery, onto the T-shirt.(SPOTLIGHT: CHAMINDIKA)(Chamindika Wanduragala)(Brief article)

Colorlines Magazine

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The work of visual artist Chamindika is populated by characters who create the unsettling sense that they are spilling out from another world. Some of their faces are weary; others are filled with maniacal joy. They look too serious to be cartoon characters, too surreal to be human. Her characters are based on a mixture of personal experience, history and myth, and Audre Lorde's concept of biomythography. They fill Chamindika's drawings, posters and most recently her T-shirt designs. Whether on canvas or cotton, each character is striking.

Chamindika Wanduragala, who is Sri Lankan American, has had shows in Sri Lanka, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and ...

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