FAST TRAVELING PASSENGER
Solo exhibition | 33 Bond Gallery | New York City
March 13 - April 24, 2008


Fast Traveling Passenger | 2007 | installation view | 33 Bond Gallery, New York

Excerpt from Press Release
"33 Bond Gallery presents Fast Traveling Passenger, an exhibition including new works of gouache and ink on paper
as well as a large-scale sculptural installation that will emanate from the gallery wall. In his new series of work, the Pakistani-American artist has
illustrated a number of media-inspired depictions of soldiers and flameless explosions that have been fragmented and juxtaposed with components
of vintage, foreign-model automobiles inspired by memories of the artist’s early upbringing."

Installation Views (click to expand)

 

Selected works from the exhibition



Fast Traveling Passenger | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

 

Spectacle of Pride | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

"In a featured work, Go Postal (We Deliver For You), 2007, Khan depicts two U.S. mail trucks to raise the issue of car bombing, a form of violence usually associated with the Middle East, from a domestic perspective. In this work, the viewer is witness to the explosive impact of such an event occurring to a vehicle from a United States government agency on any street in America instead of in a foreign arena. Khan’s work does not express blatant violent explosions conversely, upon closer look, his assemblage of pattern, line, shape and color come together to express a choreographed composition of carefully arranged parts."

Go Postal (We Deliver For You) | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

 

Karakoram Express (Collision Zone) | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

 

CitroënAsian | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

 

Two-Thousand-Two | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

 

504 Accelerated | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in

 

Spider Soldiers (with Pomegranates) | 2007 | ink and gouache on paper | 30 x 22 in