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DESCRIPTION:May 30\, 2026 - Jan 31\, 2027\nPainted on scrolls\, alive with 
 cosmic energies revealed in the shapes (say) of ferocious spirit bodies\, 
 thangkas are the Buddhist icons of the Himalayas. As an eight year old in 
 Kathmandu\, Tsherin Sherpa had a hard time at school. But his father\, a T
 ibetan master of the thangka\, sensed in the boy’s meticulous copies of 
 popular posters a talent for his own rigorously codified\, technically exa
 cting art. Thus began Tsherin’s long\, steep climb to mastery in that an
 cient tradition. But comic-book adaptations of action-packed Hindu epics l
 ike the Ramayana thrilled his young mind\, too. Later\, he began assimilat
 ing the pop culture of San Francisco and the Bay Area as well. How this wi
 de-eyed wanderer from afar fetched up in California will make an enchantin
 g documentary someday. For now\, suffice it to say that a commission out o
 f the blue to design posters for Jamba Juice’s new product line Enlighte
 ned Smoothies had him playing in another league. Yet the aesthetic princip
 les passed down from his father have never left him. By 2022\, when Sherpa
  had reached his early 50s\, his boldly colored\, often carnivalesque flig
 hts of fancy anchored Nepal’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. “
 I wonder\,” the artist has said. “If all the people in the valley left
  to go somewhere else\, would the spirits follow? And if they do\, how do 
 they readjust in the new environment?” The works on view in the show “
 Divine Disruptions” find him answering those questions from his bridge b
 etween worlds.
LOCATION:Honolulu Museum of Art\, 900 S Beretania St.\, Honolulu\, HI 96814
 \, United States
SUMMARY:Divine Disruption: The Art of Tsherin Sherpa
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