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 Debangana Banerjee
Web: www.debangana.weebly.com
My works are about my journey through life—memories of the past, experiences of thepresent and premonitions of the future—and how that journey, through its changing landscapesand human characters, generates images that I call inscapes. In most of my artistic creations the external landscape supplies the resources thatultimately form inscapes in my mind, which I pour out in both my art and poetry. For me, inscape is born out of the marriage of the external world andinternal emotions. I take the elements of the outside world and ferment them in my imaginationto pour out a combined vision of internal landscape.
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branching inside
Woodcut and painting
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 Raazia Chandoo
A juxtaposition of image and pattern with a predominant concern for a lightsource lends itself to the prismatic breakup of light and encourages boldness in the application of color
Islamic patterning is the human approach towards identifying with a universal sense of order
Memories fade over time and are retained merely in their essence. These memory and dream essences and their fragmentary composition allow to make us who we are today
RaaziaChandoo was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and completed her education at the Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute. Her work has been showcased at the VM Gallery, Karachi, 2nd and 7th Gallery at Middle Colligiate Church, NYC, The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC and at the White Plains Public Library Museum Gallery, White Plains, NY.
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Drawing with pens
Ballpoint on paper
28” x 40” |
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 Shanthi Chandrasekar
Web: www.shanthic.com
Shanthi Chandrasekar was born and brought in Tamil Nadu, India. She studied Physics at the Women’s Christian College, Chennai and then her Masters in Pyschology from Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
Shanthi is a self-taught artist who has been drawing and painting since early childhood. Her interest in understanding different media has led her to experiment with sculpture, photography, and printmaking. She has also been trained in the traditional art form Tanjore painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.
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Red Dots-9
Mixed Media Drawing on paper
28" x 37"
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 Bivas Chaudhuri
Web: http://www.aaartsalliance.org
My current work is involved with space, which is full of energy. I use repetitive visual elements and meditative process to energize the whole space. The highly structured slowly changing imagery is a close resemblance of my deep state of mind. It is emblematic of modern times mixed with personal feelings and impression of nature. |
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Uprooted, africa
acrylic and oil
48” x 48”
2009 |
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 Pritika Chowdhry
I engage with cultural forms of memory and representations of historical trauma through my creative practice. Often the starting point of my creative projects is deep research in a particular historical event or events of contemporary significance. My recent works have comprised of a series of art installations that memorialize partitions and ethnic fissures occurring in the 20th century. The primary output of my studio practice is large-scale sculptures and site-sensitive installations that reference the scale of the body as it is reproduced in and through the national. |
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Masters tounges sculptures |
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 Nandini Chirimar
Nandini Chirimar grew up in Jaipur, India and came to the USA in 1987 to study art. She completed her BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cornell University, a residency at Skowhegan School of Art, and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She learned viscosity printing from Arun Bose and spent four years in Japan studying woodblock printing with Taika Kinoshita. Nandini lives in New York City and has shown at Allen Gallery Chelsea, New York (solo exhibition); Ono Gallery, Tokyo; CWAJ Print Shows, Tokyo; Exhibit 320 Gallery, New Delhi; CIMA Gallery, Kolkata; AHAF Fair, Korea; SLICK II Fair, Paris; and in Erasing Borders Traveling Exhibitions. |
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Spices, Lace and Flowers (II)
22x30"
Aquatint, chine colle, pencil, sewing and collage on paper
2012 |
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 Delna Dastur
Web: www.delnadastur.com
Over the years as I developed as an artist, I came to the realization that the process of making a piece of art intrigues me as much as its subject matter. I am never satisfied with using one medium exclusively and always attempt to combine several.
I embraced charcoal as my primary medium for several years, using a variety of improvised tools such as ear syringes, brushes, charcoal powder, and many different types of erasers to manipulate it. I occasionally added ink and pastel to further increase the complexity of the drawings.
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Calypso
Mixed Media
Diptych, 40 x 30 each
2011 |
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 Minakshi De
Web: www.minakshide.com
Art is my love and inclination. My passion for love is what keeps me going. For me each painting is a new experience. Each day seems to include not only the creation of something new, but also the discovery of other intriguing things. When I start with an empty canvas, I still feel like a student whose mind is riddled with many thoughts. Sometimes the brush guides me, step-by-step, layer-by-layer. As I keep filling the canvas, my desired color, light and subject is spread all over in achieving the perfect emotion that fills my heart.
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Banana flower
Medium acrylic on canvas
22” x 28” |
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 Uday K. Dhar
Web: www.udaydhar.com
My work focuses on two compelling experiences.
One, as a visual artist, my work is a response to the massive amounts of visual information that we encounter. With the advent of new technologies, the production and consumption of images has increased exponentially. My reaction as an artist is that each person has to choose images to focus on, in order to create meaning. I do not want to be a passive consumer of images, but rather an active participant in the making of images.
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Dnt U Wsh Yr Gf was Ht Lk Me?
Unique collage, digital print on canvas, oil, wax, and glaze
48”x 62”
2010 |
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 Claudia Dias
I am interested in Macro- and Micro-structures, which reflect in a broader sense our human dimensions.
In these 3 larger etchings (ca. 5.5"x 5.5") I am looking into the surface of objects which obviously are bigger then what we can see, but which can tell their long history through their surfaces’ “interactions”. |
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Saturn's Moon Hyperion; Cratered Edge. It Is Thought That Due To Its Low Density Much Of Its Interior Is Empty.
Aquatint Etching 6.25" x 6.25 |
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 Anujan Ezhikode
Web: www.anujanezhikode.com
Anujan Ezhikode was raised in a rural community, in India, where all aspects of daily life were intertwined with religious and folk rituals, which combined music, dance, theater, and visual art. This experience was further augmented by his training in the classical theater arts at the Kerala State Academy of Arts (the Kerala Kalamandalam).
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Vedanta
Acrylic on paper
40"x75" |
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 Mustafa Faruki
Web: www.mustafafaruki.com
My practice concerns the experimental possibilities available in architectural representation; more specifically, I am interested in developing non-conventional uses for the representational types normally employed in the everyday practice of architecture. Architects use these representational types (i.e.: drawing, modeling, mapping, visualization) as a means of describing their design intentions. Through a specialized visual code-- some parts formally standardized, others tacitly understood-- architects outline their desires graphically, and these images are in turn built into reality. |
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Celebatorium 301 (...Chaahe mujh tak jaam na aaye) 2011
14 x 20 "
Large format ink-jet print and stamped ink on satin |
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 Ruee V. Gawarikar
My works are about the predicament of an individual in a chaotic, urban environment. They stream from my experiences of being born and brought up in India. Having been part of a booming and vigorously developing nation, I witnessed an extreme change in lifestyle and subsequently in the outlook and priorities. My paintings depict the extreme fragmentation of a multifaceted man arising from contrasting thoughts of higher aspirations and complex material ambitions. They portray the excesses of humans and subsequent consequences on the psyche and mind. |
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The Thinker
46" x 58"
Acrylic on Canvas |
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 Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar
Web: www.reetagk.com
Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar was born in India, received her Laureata at the Academia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy, and has spent most of her adult life in Europe and North America. She is a painter as well as a muralist. Some of her murals can be seen in the UK (London), Italy (Rome, Tirrenia, Taranto, Tor Sapiense), USA (Rochester, Chicago). Reeta's paintings have been part of numerous international solo & group shows, are housed in international collections both individual and museum (Venezuela, Spain, Italy, India).
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3868
Title footprint (work in progress)
medium acrylic on canvas
size 56" x 33"
price $ 7000.00 |
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 Abhijit Goswami
Web: www.abegoswami.com
Abhijit holds a Masters Degree in Physics and has attended Graduate school in Business Administration at New York University. He has earned the title of “Honorary Citizen” of Trenton, New Jersey in the course of his earlier career in Corporate Finance. Formerly an active member of MENSA, he has varied interests; his passion and full time occupation now is Painting.
Abhijit grew up in New Delhi, India and has made New York his home for the last three decades. |
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Bullfight
Mixed Media
34 x 41" |
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 Shivina Harjani
I think of my work as fragments of introspection. My process is first and foremost a keen Self analysis, so inseparable from my internal life that I am freed from the need to live in any way other than artistically. Art and being have become interchangeable.
This rigor grounds the playful hypotheses that much of my work investigates. I am often taken by the little oddities and the pockets of weird that pop up in daily life: the delay between written text and thought, the slight mismatch of two identical things, the life between digital and analog.
I hope that in the play of self-analysis with frivolity, my work is a perceptive filter of lightheartedness to a sometimes heavy world. |
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Alien friend 3
Don’t you wish you were friends with an alien?
Size: TBD*
Medium: Chemigram |
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 Mansoora Hassan
Web: www.mansoorahassan.com
Mansoora Hassan was born in Peshawar, Pakistan and received a Master in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York. She is a photographer, painter and video artist, working in mixed media. Hassan has exhibited and traveled extensively, with works in public and private collections worldwide, including Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Senegal, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the USA. |
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 Samina Iqbal
SaminaIqbal is a graduate of National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan. She received her MFA from University of Minnesota in 2003. In the last six years, she taught at Appalachian State University, NC and Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan. Currently, she is working towards her Ph. D. Her area of research is South Asian art. She has exhibited her work in USA, Pakistan, India and UK. |
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Utencils
Actual cooking Utencils dressed in Fabric
2010 |
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 Ina Kaur
Web: www.inakaur.com
Our identities are defined and influenced by our history, society and the culture of our immediate surroundings. We stand at a crossroad where nationalities and localities intersect. In this global cultural environment where identities and boundaries converge, one seeks to identify oneself. Living in a post-colonial, post-modern global environment, I explore a continuum of cross-cultural negotiation. |
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Liberating restrains
Color etching, relief & blind embossment
24” x 18”
2010 |
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 Kulvinder Kaur Dhew
Web: http://kulvinderkaurdhew.blogspot.com
Engaged by the capacity of paint to extol variables, inherent within the material, I acknowledge potential for ‘the new’. For me, the medium is able to support intellectual dialogue at the same time as the visceral gesture/experience. I utilize variable themes and visual styles in order to create a friction or activity between them. |
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Gaze Away Tangiglow
Digital archival c-print on aluminium
4” x 20” |
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 Reet Kunal Das
Web: www.reetdas.com
Reet Das was born in Bombay and moved to Brooklyn at the age of 3. As an only child of working parents, he spent his time obsessively reading Kipling’s “Just So Stories” and “The Jungle Book”, making collages from circus programs, and was always surrounded by pets of all shapes and sizes. He also had a strong interest in science and knew that there was much more to boys than, “Snips & snails & puppy dog tails” |
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The Jets and the Sharks
Blue Print, Gouache, Acrylic, Graphite, on Paper
26” x 17”
2009 |
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 Rahul Mehra
Art has always been his passion since early years and Rahul is enamored by the vibrancy of colors and pigments that abound from the Indian subcontinent. The reds and vermilions juxtaposed between the ochre and the yellow with the blue, his works are deeply connected to themes found in Indian mythology and the social milieu of the subcontinent.
His interests range from contemporary Indian modern art to the varied dance forms from the subcontinent and the wide canvas of Indian mythology. |
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Abhinay 1 ‘The Act’ – Part A
Acrylic on Paper
40” x 29”
Series 102 – Abhinay 1 – The Act Part-A |
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 Shobha Menon
No art is accidental. It always has a quiet beginning and phases of growth and flowering inside the artist.
As an artist, I like to capture mood and emotion, internalized memories of myths and narratives, complexities and subtleties of human experience. Deep rooted images of Indian culture and fast moving technology of this present world tend to impasse me in a cultural synthesis, where I am confused and in a process to evolve a new idiom of visual language in canvas… |
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the saga of Madhavi with silent tears
and pain
Digital Painting/ Canvas- archival ink, edition 3/3
Dimension: 36” x 24”
Price: $2800.00 |
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 Rahul Mitra
My work is a summation of the growing cultural, economic, political and environmental disparity in the urban spaces. This silent angstmanifests into the cultural differences or similarities between civilizations across the globe. I build a narrative using the visual vocabulary that fuels this angst. I remove the space and time references to the images. This, depending how one sees it, creates strong reactions, possibly impinging on the desire to constantly define the “normal” or the “ideal”. What is ideal is then subjective to the influences of the environment. Hence, a small perturbation in the system could lead to a “flash mob” behavior. I present a glimpse into the private worlds of the global human social behavior. |
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Synthesis
Marker on paper
29” x 41”
2010 |
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 Jayanthi Moorthy
I try to depict the material and the metaphysical aspects of life. For the material aspect, I use subjects from nature, as I perceive their organic forms, texture, lines and colors. For the metaphysical aspects, I draw inspiration from the inner spirituality that manifests in the everyday lives of Asian women. I enjoy depicting their social, cultural and spiritual conflicts. They display a mixture of beauty, strength and weakness.
Each canvas is a message, composed from calligraphy, acrylics, oil pastels, ink and paper collages, and made with non-artist tools (like a comb, the broom, a stub, bare hands etc.). The heavy textures and vibrant colors are probably narrative of my responsiveness to the varying cultures of the east and west. My canvases are longish, un-stretched pieces of cloth and paper that can be rolled away like a scroll that is carrying a message. |
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Unitled
Size: 60" x 22"
Medium: Acrylic, ink, paper collage on banana paper
Price: $1750 |
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 Alakananda Mukerji
Web: http://alka.roshino.com/
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Tagore and Art
Lithograph on Acid free paper
15 x 20’
2011 |
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 George Oommen
Web: www.goommen.com
George Oommen: The Image as the key
Born in Munnar, Kerala, India, and educated in India, Mexico, and the United States, George Oommen continues to derive artistic inspiration from the lush green landscapes of his homeland. Every winter, Oommen visits Mankotta, a small island in the inland waters of Kerala in southwestern India, ten miles from Oommen’s ancestral home. The weeks spent there fuel his painting year round. |
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Kanjeevaram Series 33
chroma bond on metal
24 x 36”
2010 |
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 Jigar Patel
Jigar A. Patel is the first American born member of a Gujarati family. Born and raised in New Jersey with a high level of cultural and artistic influence from New York City, Jigar has developed his work through mostly self taught skills. A passion for oil painting led him to pursue a dual degree with a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University and a B.F.A in Fine Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts. Jigar currently works in the marketing and design world of progressive internet organizations. |
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 Avani Patel
Web: www.avanirpatel.com
Music evokes the body to respond to a rhythm and become an embodiment of exuberance, expression and movement. My idea of painting is a rhythmic performance with music that creates a whole new language of abstract harmony, as a means of expressing music in visual form. The inspiration of Indian performance and various music selections inspire a language of expression, harmonious elements, and abstract figures which form patterns on my canvases. |
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Free in Love
Acrylic
5" x 6"
2011 |
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 Nirmal Raja
Web: www.nirmalraja.com
This body of work is a series of investigations into visual representations of time and memory. Using the chance discovery of player piano rolls as a point of departure, I create paintings, prints and collages that make connections across continents, cultures and periods of time.
Player pianos are self playing pianos which were popular in turn of the century America. These pianos use perforated paper rolls in a vacuum chamber to play music. The scroll format and quaint, overtly sentimental lyrics of the piano rolls lend themselves to a dialogue that highlights the passage of time, cultural distance and technological change. |
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Cha cha cha altered player piano roll in interactive scroll box
(xerox transfers, watercolor and screen printing)
18 x 24 x 40 |
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Ali Raza
Web: http://www.aliraza.net/
In so-called phenomena of “globalization,” different cultures and sub-cultures not just constantly evolve but also engage in the act of discovering each other’s differences, or more politely, “diverse” opinions and ideas. As a result of this constant exchange of exposure of “the other”, transpires the notion of hybridization. I consider this sort of hyrbidity, a dichotmic process – both constructive and questionable at the same time. On one hand, it generates new possibilities of thought and imagination by merging diverse beliefs of different cultures to develop sub-cultures, and on the downside, no matter how well one translates an idea from one language / culture to the other, there remains a variable fraction of untranslatability. The failure or inability to understand each other, promotes stereotypes that eventually leads to confrontation. . |
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Rug
C-Print
48"x30"
2010 |
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 Rasika Reddy
Web: www.rasikareddy.com
The inspiration for this body of work was my fascination with the various manifestations of mother goddess in the Indian culture.
The concept of a powerful being who can create, nurture or destroy is well known and accepted in the Indian society and yet, a woman’s place in the real world is more often fragile and powerless.
Physical beauty and adornment are generally considered to be superficial and reinforce the perception of women as objects of beauty and desire only. However I have come to believe that external adornment does not need to be simply superficial or vain, it can be a path to the inner beauty as well. |
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UNTITLED 2
MIXED MEDIA
24” x 30” |
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 Sangeeta Reddy
I started out looking for visual equivalents of certain intriguingly abstract ideas of Indian philosophy - the very abstract concept of Brahman. And it was when I turned my attention to the sound of chants that I began to be interested in the appearance of words. This led to the incorporation of the Devnagari (Sanskrit) script into my work. |
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Ellipse #29
mixed media collage on monotype
22” x 30” |
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 Tara Sabharwal
Web: www.tarasabharwal.com
Tara Sabharwal was born in Delhi, studied painting in Baroda and completed her Masters from the Royal College of Art in London on a British Council scholarship. As a student in London, the Victoria and Albert Museum bought her work and she showed at Bernard Jacobson and Christopher Hull galleries. |
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Warm earth snake
water color
11” x 15” |
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 Aparajita Sen
web: www.senjita.com
I was born in India and spent my early childhood years in New Delhi. I took to drawing and pencil sketching at a very early age. My maternal grandfather, who was a well-known Indian artist and student in Shantiniketan under the tutelage of renowned poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore, was my inspiration. Subsequently, my family immigrated to the United States and I continued drawing through my school years. In college, I majored in Computer Science and Finance, not been given the opportunity to study Art. I found myself with little time to devote to my artwork. After graduating from St. Johns University, New York, I worked in the Financial/Banking field for ten years. During those years, despite the time constraints I was able to pursue my artistic interests by continuing to draw and sketch whenever I had the time. |
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Metamorphosis I
Mixed Media
22"x28" |
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 Ela Shah
www.elashah.com
Ela Shah was born in Bombay, India. She began painting at a very early age, and living in India she learned Indian miniature painting techniques as well as various Western styles. After receiving her Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Diploma in Fine Arts from India, she traveled around the world and subsequently moved to the United States and received her M.A. in sculpture at Montclair State University. Although an American citizen, she has been able to hold on to her Indian heritage and incorporate elements of it into her artwork along with Western influences. |
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puzzle of the past
Found object, paint on burnt wood and portable 7” DVD player (electric outlet)
30” x 16” x8”
2011
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 Mohammad Tasneem Shahzad
Tasneem, an icon in the field of art was born at Peshawar Pakistan He received his formal education at Peshawar University Pakistan but was initiated into the world of art by his accomplished father. He has participated in numerous exhibitions & got many prestigious & reputed awards.
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Khyber pass
Mix media
20” x 30” |
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 Madhvi Subrahmanian
Web: www.madhvisubrahmanian.com
Cornucopia
The forms built with coils like vines cradle and encircle one another, they are supportive and emergent, relaxed yet taut- through these I explore the underlying dual nature of existence that of interconnections and individuality, dependence and self-reliance, fragility and strength. The horn of plenty- cornucopia-holds and releases in its perforated form what one can receive yet easily loose.
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Cornucopia
Ceramics
13” x 17” x 13" |
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 Anu Thadani
Anu Thadani was born in New Delhi, India, but has lived all over India. She spent her teen years in Jakarta, Indonesia and came to the United States to attend college. She currently resides in River Edge, New Jersey. She received an MS in Cell and Molecular Biology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Anu worked in research in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries for many years, but decided to give it up to teach. She teaches AP Biology and Forensics at a public high school in New Jersey. Anu is a self-taught artist and has painted since she was in her teens. Her medium of choice is oil on canvas. This is Anu’s first exhibition. |
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Dabbawala and BEST Bus
Size: 4' x 5'
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Price: TBD |
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 MD Tokon
Web: www.mdtokon.com
BORN: Bangladesh
RESIDES: New York City, New York (2001 to Present)
EDUCATION:
The Art Students League of New York (Studio/Continue Education - Under RonneiLandfiled, Mariano del
Rosario, Larry Poons)
B.A. Art & Communication Design, The City University of New York
Associate Degree Art & Advertising Design, The City University of New York |
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Musical Mist
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 48”
Year: 2012 |
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