Samatha Batra Mehta

"Imprint Series, The Glove Drawings # 1 & #2"

Lot No# AB2013

Samantha Batra Mehta
Imprint Series, The Glove Drawings # 1 & 2
C-Print, Mounted on Gator Board
9" x 14” x ¾”
Work Done in 2008

Bio:

Samanta Batra Mehta was born in New Delhi, India in 1975. She has exhibited her work at various international venues including at Bodhi Art Gallery in Bombay, the Queens Museum, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, AIR Gallery, Guild Art and Crossing Art Gallery in New York, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and at the Salon Du Dessin Contemporain 2010, a drawing fair in Paris with Galerie LMD. Samanta has degrees in Economics and Information Systems from St Xavier’s College, Bombay and the London School of Economics, London. She has attended various art-making classes and workshops including the year-long Aesthetics of Indian Visual Art at the Bombay University and Summer School in Drawing and Painting at the Central St. Martins, London. She has also been trained in traditional Byzantine icon-making at the Prosopon School of Iconology, New York. Prior to pursuing art full-time from mid-2008 onwards, Samanta worked in Banking, Venture Capital and International Shipping. She currently lives in New York, USA. Her website is: www.samantabatramehta.com