Art Musings opens their next solo exhibition of renowned artist Jayasri Burman entitled Fables & Folklore on 25 October 2010 at Jehangir Art Gallery. The show presents a large body of over 35 paintings and sculptures. Jayasri’s art, derived from the rich tradition of Hindu mythology, has carved out its own identity. The imagery in Jayasri Burman’s work has a dream-like and lyrical quality. Inspired by the Indian folk element, the paintings have a unique sensitivity. She weaves the decorative design element of the folk idiom into the intricate patterns of her works, without losing the natural charm and naiveté that is uniquely her own. Jayasri’s themes deal with the traditional and sacred, but the artist gives her works a nuance that is reinterpreted to have a more contemporary context. Jayasri has had several solo shows, including Sacred Feminine with Art Musings in 2006 and has participated in landmark exhibitions all over the world. Her works can be found in important museum and private collections. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

25.10.2010 – 28.11.2010

Jayasri Burman | Sohodhar | Watercolour Pen & Ink on Paper | 24” x 24’’ | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Sneho | Watercolour On Paper | 36” x 48” | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Shantola, Watercolour | Pen & Ink on Paper | 36” X 36” | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Sastrik | Watercolour Pen & Ink on Paper | 36” x 48” | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Parboti | Watercolor, Pen & Ink on Paper | 45” x 45” | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Kushum Koli | Watercolour, Pen & Ink on Paper | 36’’ X 36” | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Bonani | Watercolour Pen & Ink on Paper | 24” x 24” | 2010

Jayasri Burman | Annapurna | Watercolour | Pen & Ink on Paper | 45” x 45” | 2010

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Art Musings proudly presents a solo exhibition of Kerala based artist Gopikrishna featuring paintings in oil and watercolour, as well as drawings. A consummate storyteller, Gopikrishna peoples his universe with myriad creatures and characters, each conveying their own subtle wisdom. His paintings appear as though they were pages from a book of fairy tales. In his surrealistic canvas, one can witness the ordinary and the impossible, unity and solitude, illumination and darkness. About the works, says Gopikrishna “After my last show, I thought about taking a little turn from the path; I gave total freedom for the paintings to come and these works are the result of that travel through freedom. All the characters are separate entities speaking separate stories. I allowed this carnival to happen within me and enjoyed it to the total.”

08.09.2010 – 23.10.2010

Art Musings opens their next exhibition on 2 August 2010 with a solo show featuring renowned artist and Padma Shri recipient K G Subramanyan. Works on display include paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolor, as well as drawings. A consummate storyteller, Subramanyan peoples his universe with myriad creatures and people. His characters range from cats to fisherwomen, courtesans to angels, each conveying their own subtle wisdom. Gentle wit and satire combine in his work as he passes from the lurid to the sterile, the lascivious to the reticent. The Government of India has honored several awards to him including the Padma Shri. The exhibition continues till 30 August 2010.

02.08.2010 – 30.08.2010

K G SUBRAMANYAN
Untitled
Pen & Ink on Paper
15" X 10.5"

K G SUBRAMANYAN
Tea Set on Table
Oil on Board
24’’ X 30’’

K G SUBRAMANYAN
Untitled
Watercolour on Paper
21" X 13"

K G SUBRAMANYAN
Untitled
Watercolour on Paper
21" X 13"

Art Musings opens their next exhibition on 20 June 2010 featuring 4 artists, including Maïté Delteil, Milburn Cherian, Suhas Roy, and Ajay De. Works on display include paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolor. Paris-based Maïté Delteil’s works have a languid quality and have an old world charm. Works on display include small format oils. A plethoric cluttered tapestry of glazed humans and their existential saga formulate the distinct iconography of Milburn Cherian’s work. Her works have an enticing jewel-like quality which transports the viewer into a fantasy world. Suhas Roy’s preoccupation is with the female face and form, and his subjects are romanticized, inhabiting the dreamlike world between sensuality and innocence. Works on display include crayons, charcoal and oil. Ajay De’s works are easily identified by his trademark use of charcoal, interspersed with red or blue. Works on display include his Mother Theresa series.

20.06.2010 – 30.07.2010

Shades of Autumn | Oil on Canvas | 30" X 36"

Games in the Garden | Oil on Canvas | 11" X 9"

Art Musings features 4 contemporary artists, including Baiju Parthan, Shibu Natesan, Sudarshan Shetty and Raghava K K. Works on display include paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolour. Baiju Parthan is an inter-media artist, working simultaneously with traditional media of painting as well as digital technology based installation art. Works on display include acrylic on canvas as well as paper. In this body of work, Shibu Natesan embraces photorealism. The simulations resemble the original to a startling degree and prompt readings, which were contrary to what was intended, thus displacing the meaning without significantly altering the appearance. Sudarshan Shetty works across media such as sculpture, installations and painting. Large canvas works display an intriguing combination of the representational and the abstract. Raghava works in genres as widely disparate as painting, installation, film and performance. Raghava will go down as one of the few Indians honoured to speak at the prestigious TED conference that invites some of the greatest thinkers of our time to present their ideas. In this exhibition, he presents a series of large acrylic paintings, as well as some watercolour works.

10.05.2010 – 19.06.2010

Oil On Linen | 60"x 72" | 2007

Wrestlers | Oil On Canvas | 17’’ X 15’’

Oil On Canvas | 18’’ X 14’’

Oil On Paper | 23’’x 17’’

ART MUSINGS opens their next exhibition on 5 April 2010 featuring 5 renowned artists, including Laxma Goud, Paresh Maity, Satish Gujral, T Vaikuntam and Lalu Prasad Shaw.All the artists are displaying paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolour as well as bronze sculptures in their trademark style. Laxma Goud displays his versatility over a range of mediums, from watercolour, glass painting, printmaking and sculpture in bronze and teracotta. Laxma’s rural ‘nayaks’ and ‘nayikas’ are raw and vivacious in their appeal. Paresh Maity’s vibrant and colorful works echo the passion of the artist. The sand dunes of Rajasthan, the backwaters of Kerala, to the Benaras series, Paresh’s paints have captured it all. Satish Gujral has been internationally acclaimed for his multi-talents of painting, graphics, sculpture, murals, architecture and interior design.Works on display at the exhibition include painting and sculpture. Rustic, raw, and potent are some of the words that come to mind when looking at Vaikuntam’s works in acrylic and charcoal. The portraits of men and women represent the Indian ethos rather than particular individual identities. In the world of Lalu Prasad Shaw’s painterly realm, peace & harmony remain the resonant themes. The imagery in his work has a lyrical quality with a unique sensitivity that is strongly inspired by the classical Indian element.

05.04.2010 – 05.05.2010

PARESH MAITY
In Search Of Guernica
Mixed Media on Paper
55.5 X 95

PARESH MAITY
Mystic City - 2
Oil on Canvas
36 X 36
2009

T. VAIKUNTAM
Radhakrishna with Parrot
Acrylic on Canvas
16X20

PARESH MAITY
Reflection - 1
Oil on Canvas
40 X 40
2008

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Though Nikhil Chaganlal has exhibited extensively both in India and abroad, this is his first solo exhibition with Art Musings. The show features 21 mixed media works on Masonite board, depicting his famed interiors. Over the years, Chaganlal has developed a unique technique of painting on Masonite. He uses acrylic combined with oil paints and chemical sealants used in the fishing boat industry. Says Chaganlal, “I paint portraits of Interiors. The painting, each one a room, is like a private diary disclosing places of old world charm, with an embrace of intimacy, of happy days almost forgotten. This body of work is a painterly autobiography of a suggestive presence of people from my past. Narrations are hidden in objects and furniture sometimes reveals emotions of restless sexuality and aspiring spirituality. Painting for me is to create a space, mood and thought….. to live within a dream…… this perfectly articulates my life’s journey.”

25.02.2010 – 30.03.2010

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25 – 31 January 2010 at Jehangir Art Gallery 1 – 13 February 2010 at Art Musings Radhakrishnan is one of the most notable among the new generation of figurative sculptors who has successfully brought about a resurgence in Indian sculpture. A modernist, he recharges age-old sculptural processes with a new sensibility. His work, both intimate and universal, takes the celebration of sensuality as one of its central themes. In the words of art historian R Siva Kumar, “Radhakrishnan’s recent works bring together all the sculptural devices and images he has employed during the last eight years and thus reveals certain relations between them more pointedly. The mass on the ramp is miniaturized versions of Mausi and Maiya with their individualities dissolved as if seen at a distance; genderless, faceless figures. The reality, we are reminded, is a matter of perspective.” The artist has exhibited in important exhibitions extensively both in India and abroad, and his works can be found in several public and private collections throughout the world. This is his second solo exhibition with Art Musings.

25.01.2010 – 13.02.2010

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Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition of New York-based artist Raghava K K entitled Brooklyn Bound R Train. A self-taught artist, Raghava has worked in genres as widely disparate as painting, installation, film and performance. Raghava made a decisive move to New York City, where he is actively engaged in its art scene. Raghava K K speaks about New York and this new series: “I can’t think of a more harsh reality than the crude, cattle-like, modular, transient existence in New York city. You live and die every three months. You emerge stronger, more beautiful, and more real. My works cannot remain the same after I have moved here. The subway, the crowds, the temporality, the non-spaces, the graffiti, the coffee shops, the parks, the parking-meters, all have become a strong part of my reality. My Indian-ness now is turned inside out, and I’m viewing myself from the perspective of New York City. New York has a natural way of filtering out the weak.” Raghava has been invited as a speaker at the TED Conference (2010) in Long Beach, CA as a part of its 25th anniversary year. He will go down as one of the few Indians honoured to speak at the prestigious TED Conference that invites some of the greatest thinkers of our time to present their ideas.

16.12.2009 – 20.01.2010

ART MUSINGS Presents A Solo Show by PARESH MAITY 10 November – 15 November 2009 @ Jehangir Art Gallery 16 November – 8 December 2009 @ Art Musings Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition of one of India’s most prominent artists Paresh Maity entitled Montage Moments Memories. The exhibition brings together works in diverse mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and video. The suite of paintings, Mystic City, includes works in oil, mixed media & watercolour in his trademark style, featuring landscapes and figurative images. The bronze sculptures from the Face to Face series are large angular faces, while in Maity’s photo work, Faces of Life, the artist has worked over the photographed image in pen & ink. Also in the exhibition, the artist is for the first time featuring a video work, Kolkata to Kozhikode, tracing India through the monsoon season. The varied artworks on display celebrate the range of Maity’s creativity.

10.11.2009 – 08.12.2009

Mystic City - I | Oil on Canvas | 36" x 36"

Santiniketan | Mixed Media on Board | 40" X 60"

Mystic City - 10 | Oil on Canvas | 60" X 120"