Artist Statement
Introduction to Collages
In the early 2009, I started working on a series of collages by recycling found cardboards/magazines from the streets of NYC. It has been an exciting adventure ever since. They have led me to explore the mysterious and unusual with a new aspect of rhythm and surprise..a 'form' of plastic freedom combined with a 'kind' of new architecture. They are pictorial representations, often from memories and myths.
I have tried to arrive at some sort of universal metaphor with these mixed media works. The titles for these mixed media works presented themselves in humorous ways. They carry within, sense of fragmented dreams, dislocations.. at times without boundaries-ongoing the past imperfect.
Some works are recycled vignettes with a sense to seek specificity within abstraction. Often, there is an interplay between recognizable image and abstract shapes, between spontaneity and control, and between foreboding irrationality and joyous affirmation.
Bio
EDUCATION
Studio Programme (3yrs.) 2003 Sculpture/Painting New York Studio School, New York
B.A (5yrs.) 1996 Architecture School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi
AWARDS/SCHOLORSHIPS
2002 The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, New York Studio School, New York
2003 The Mercedes Matter Scholarship, New York Studio School, New York
EXHIBITIONS
| Art Connects New York |
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December 2010 |
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Spattered Columns Gallery , New York |
| Erasing Borders/Group Exhibition |
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September 2010 |
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The Guild Gallery, New York |
| Erasing Borders/Group Exhibition |
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June 2010 |
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Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia |
| Erasing Borders/Group Exhibition |
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April 2010 |
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Visual Arts Center, Summit, New Jersey |
| Site of Departure Source of Arrival |
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February 2010 |
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Middlesex County College, New Jersey |
| Pop-Up/Group Exhibition |
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February 2010 |
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Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York |
| X-Initiative/Group Exhibition |
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February 2010 |
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X-Initiative, New York |
| Miami Art Basel |
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December 2009 |
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Rip Ions Gallery, Miami |
| Alumni Exhibition |
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May 2008 |
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New York Studio School, New York |
| Group Exhibition |
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October 2008 |
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Arts.i, New Delhi |
| Solo Exhibition |
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May 2008 |
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Hotel Gershwin, New York |
| Group Exhibition |
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April 2008 |
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Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York |
| Group Exhibition |
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March 2008 |
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Java Street Studios, New York |
| Group Exhibition |
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February 2008 |
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Java Street Studios, New York |
| Group Exhibition |
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December 2007 |
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Salomon Art Gallery, New York |
| Annual Show |
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December 2002 |
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New York Studio School, New York |
| Annual Show |
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April 2003 |
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New York Studio School, New York |
| Group Exhibition |
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May 2001 |
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Mad Rivers Gallery, New York |
| Solo Exhibition |
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April 1999 |
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Alliance Francaise de Delhi, New Delhi |
| Solo Exhibition |
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October 1998 |
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School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi |
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