San Francisco-based\u00a0Tserin Sherpa\u00a0(b. 1968, Kathmandu) masters the tradition of Tibetan\u00a0thangka\u00a0painting, trained from a young age by his father, Master Urgen Dorje, a renowned\u00a0thangka\u00a0artist from Ngyalam. His work is concerned with contemporary issues of the Tibetan diasporic experience, such as displacement and the loss of cultural heritage. Sherpa paints demons, spirits, and deities from Tibetan tradition that function as an exploration of the detachment and estrangement of the Tibetan diaspora towards their homeland. In his first solo exhibition in 2012\u00a0Tibetan Spirit, Sherpa interrogated \u201cthe way we understand objects today as works of art or for devotion.\u201d His work draws from the same principles illustrated by Andy Warhol or Marcel Duchamp; essentially, he questions our changing perceptions of objects and ideas.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"listing_category":[291],"event_category":[],"service_category":[],"rental_category":[],"classifieds_category":[],"listing_feature":[311],"region":[],"class_list":["post-1390","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing_category-publicfigures","listing_feature-artists"],"yoast_head":"\n