Tempered Branches was Iranna’s most recent solo show held this year at AICON Gallery, New York, comprising several important recent series of paintings, along with a monumental wall drawing and installation piece. The exhibition demanded a critique of our popular conception of growth and development, both in nature and human thought. The work continues to build upon Iranna’s career-spanning investigation into how social frameworks and religious dogmas, traditionally viewed as net-cultural positives, either directly or indirectly serve to suppress free thought and organic growth, often with complex and disastrous consequences.

According to art critic Ranjit Hoskote, “In a period that has registered the ascendancy of critical artistic strategies that unmask and dismantle, G.R. Iranna stands apart by espousing an art of affirmation, of measured additive procedures and philosophic reflections.”