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1. Aman Khanna
After graduating from London College of
Communication in 2004, he setup his design studio called Infomen in the city,
followed by Infonauts in New Delhi a year later. After having dabbled in the
two dimensional world for eight years, he started creating endearing clay
sculptures. Aptly titled, his Claymen are inspired by his surroundings and the
common man and divided into three categories: Clay sculptures, dysfunctional
and functional clay objects. We love how Aman’s pieces reflect a systematic
approach to design to narrate a visual story through these quirky characters.
2. Anirban Mitra
Born in Kolkata, Anirban persisted in
art since he was a child. He pursued a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Painting
from Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan. Unconventional and visually
arresting, his paintings are his interpretation of popular urban culture and
inspired by candy wrappers from the local markets, painted trucks, graphic
posters and online games like Farmville. Wait a moment as your eyes adjust to
the vibrant colours, and then paintings starts to reveal its easily relatable
story.
3. Astha Butail
This Amritsar born artist is largely
influenced by her maternal grandmother’s paintings, and also textiles produced
by her mother and sister. Pondicherry played a very important role in her
formative years, along with her education on learning calligraphy under a local
artist and art through a Chinese artist before obtaining two fashion degrees
from NIFT. In her work, she plays with various media like wood, textiles, paper
and gilded thread. It is the instant connection and simplicity of her artworks
that strikes you at first glance.
4. Elena Periera
A fashion graduate, Elena is a
conceptual artist and designer who resides in Bengaluru. After receiving her
Masters Degree in Contextual Design from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, she
setup her own graphic design practice – Studiobutterfruit. The studio currently
conducts visual work for restaurants, bars etc. Along with her graphic
establishment, she also works on the object of design that focuses on making
objects made from nature using flowers, butterflies, grass along with metal and
resins. It is easy to form an association with her work that subtly reflects
life’s daily struggles.
5. Meenakshi
Sengupta
The young Kolkata based artist obtained
her MVA in Painting from the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda. She uses
traditional pictorial representation to push formal and aesthetic conventions
to produce new meanings. She also explores gender relationships in contemporary
life through her paintings. In 2013, she debuted her solo show titled Flavour
Chart at Gallery Maskara in Mumbai. By stretching the special perimeter of
miniature paintings with familiar motifs and themes, she offers a colourful
delight for the sore eyes.
6. Parul Gupta
This Delhi based artist works with
clean architectural lines in built environments. She uses the “space” as her
medium, making subtle changes to see how the observer reacts to it. She also
works with two dimensional lines on paper through which she showcases the
subtle movements she experiences when she is in various architectural spaces.
By privileging aesthetics, Parul’s work plays with shadows and angles to trick
the eye into forming gorgeous forms.
7. Prabhakar
Pachpute
Born in Chandrapur a small city in
Maharashtra, this artist comes from a family of coal miners. His works involve
sculptures, or mixtures of sculpture, drawing and light, or where these
elements came together in stop-animation films. We particularly love how his
art expresses stories of the mines as he has heard them while growing up and
his observation of the relations that exist between the miners in a proverbial
style.
8. Prajakta Potnis
This Mumbai based artist completed her
Bachelors and Masters in Painting from Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai. Her work
dwells between an individual’s personal space and the world outside, which is
separated by merely a wall that acts like a witness to history. Through her
work she portrays how policies and resolutions passed from the top affect a
middle class home with the wall as witness to their troubles. We feel her work
is almost like a dialogue between poetic and reticent. She has showcased her
work all over the globe right from Poland to New York where she was a part of
the group exhibition.
9. Rithika Merchant
After completing her degree in BFA from
the Parsons in New York, Rithika went on to study Painting and Conceptual
Practice at the Hellenic International Studies In The Arts in Paros, Greece.
Her paintings explore superstition, myth and ritual as well as depict scenes
and creatures from her own imagination. Her art is an exploration of looking
for a common thread that runs through different cultures and religions as she
believes similar stories and myths are shared by various cultures. One can
almost hear whispers of several traditions from her paintings, much like puting
a puzzle together.
10. Rohan Shrestha
Following his father Rakesh Shrestha’s
footsteps, Rohan started his own professional photography practice after
graduation. He worked under his father, one of the India’s foremost
photographers, along with other noted professionals before starting his career.
He is best known for his photographing celebrities, covers and editorials for
leading publications and has developed ad campaigns of several leading brands.
He pushed creativity frontiers with his first solo show titled Hanami, a
Diesel+Art Initiative. The show, which was a culmination of his travels to
Japan, saw him experimenting with projection photography, video imagery and
infrared images. We love his stunning works of commercial and creative art that
carries a left-of-centre way of doing things.
11. Sachin Tekade
Born in Karodi in Maharashtra, Sachin
spent his childhood in village pastures. He holds an Art Teacher's Diploma
(ATD) from Akola, and a BA in Visual Arts from MS University, Baroda. He is
drawn to the colour white and has been using paper as his medium for the past
decade. He constantly experiments with the textural qualities of paper by
cutting and folding it to create a different style of art making. The
fact that his works of art are typically devoid of colour, it communicates to
one the spirit of purity.
12. Sahej Rahal
Mumbai born, Sahej is a Fine Arts
graduate from Rachna Sansad Academy. His work reuses discarded objects found in
dumpsters and off the streets to make tools, weapons, masks and musical
instruments that resemble artefacts from lost civilisations, while bearing
significance to our times. These objects and artefacts are then used in his
performances or shows, where he creates characters by draping them in fur or
fabric to add depth to it. His work simply shows how to find beauty in some
archetypical ugly things.
13. Sameer Kulavoor
This Visual artist and illustrator is
also the Founder and Director of independent design studio Bombay Duck Designs.
He is known for The Ghoda Cycle Project that explores Indian cycles for
collaboration with Paul Smith and The Blue Book that focuses on the unique use
of blue tarpaulin across the country. He conducted his first solo show in April
this year titled Please Have A Seat at Artisans. The exhibit originated from
random sketchbook drawings made over the past four years. We like the fact that
Sameer’s work ethics are rooted in throwing caution to the wind, giving a
hundred percent and constantly reinventing.
14. Tanya Goel
This artist returned to New Delhi after
attaining her Postgraduate studies at SAIC and MFA from the Yale University
School of Art. For her latest showcase named “LEVEL” she collected fragments of
varying hues and textures from four construction sites in New Delhi as the
primary raw material. Her work is about the physical experience and engagement
with things as opposed to observing them from a distance. It is great to experience
the intensity of "encountering" surfaces through her artworks.
Website: www.galeriems.com
15. Valay Shende
Born in Nagpur, this video artist and
sculptor received his BFA in sculpting from the JJ School of Art in Mumbai
after which he did an art residency at the Open Air Program, Point Ephemere,
Paris. Inspired by his surrounding, his work focuses on the troubles plaguing
contemporary urban society and its members. Migrating Histories of Molecular
Identities was his most recent show that was showcased at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad
Mumbai City Museum. We admire how Valay’s works attempt to question the
maladies affecting urban society and humans today.
 
FRAMED
MEMORY, FANTASY AND MORE AT SAKSHI GALLERY
Pop art to installation, digital prints to artist books – group shows are always a mix of the creative and unusual. Mumbai’s Sakshi Gallery, in its latest show, brings together a selection of artworks that illustrate themes of memory, nostalgia, fantasy and tradition. From Anirban Mitra’s acrylic creations that are as colourful as they come, to Waswo X. Waswo’s digital photographs in sepia, the art includes a variety of techniques and traits. Also a part of the exhibition are works by Arunkumar HG, Chintan Upadhyay, Dhruva Mistry, Julian Opie, Lee Hayan, Lekha Washington, Manjunath Kamath, Princess Pea, Raqib Shaw, Tayeba Begum Lipi, Valay Shende and Vivek Vilasini.
The group show is on display at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (6/19, 2nd Floor, Grants Building, Near Radio Club, Colaba) until December 2, 2015.
Upcoming Group Exhibition at Sakshi Gallery
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ROSALYN DMELLO
Former editor-in-chief of BLOUIN ARTINFO India; shortlisted for the Forbes Award for Best Emerging Art Writer 2014; nominated for the Prudential Eye Award for Best Writing on Asian Art 2015. Her book, A Handbook For My Lover, is being published in India by Harper Collins.
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Anirban Mitra at Sakshi Gallery
Born in 1981, this artist’s current series zooms in on various pictographic representations of Indian kitsch, exemplifying his interest in pop art. The recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2015, Mitra uses vibrant oil pastels, which are rarely celebrated in mainstream art. Bloated figures appear in overpopulated canvasses, which represent consumerist spaces, offering a new context for the uniquely desi, or vernacular, advertisement to exist. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2015   mm.jpg) |
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