Chitra Ganesh is a renowned artist with a wide-ranging practice and is a graduate in semiotics – the study of cultural symbolism – as well as fine arts. The Thick of Time  presents a  selection of large scale prints created over the  past 12 years. The prints are packed with potent symbols and inspired by a variety of  aesthetic idioms including comics, mytholog, science fiction, and psychedelic poster art.  All of the works on view center female protagonists, and emerge from the artist’s long held engagement with comics and prints in the form of series, books, and billboards. Ganesh’s graphic works were initially inspired by  the Amar Chitra Katha, a series of children’s comics which were first published India in  the 1960s, intended to educate young readers about Indian history, religion and myth. The Amar Chitra Katha comics, much like Greek and Hindu myths, Bible stories, and fairy tales, often feature male heroes, stories of conquest and power, and narratives that present polarized understandings of good and evil that express conventional behavioral norms around family, gender, citizenship, and power.  Ganesh subverts these forms, and  plays with mythological symbolism to raise questions rather than shape sureties about human existence. Ganesh works explore  a sense of  fragmentation and dissonance that speaks to contemporary realities of conflict, power, and desire. The artist draws upon mythic forms of figuration to  powerful female protagonists express agency and self determination.