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Forging Legacies: Two Artists, One Contemporary Vision

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Hemalatha Senathipathi: Contemporary Lineage of Cholamandal’s Legacy Born 1969, Hemalatha Senathipathi is Chennai based sculptor and painter. Her genes are artistically coded, being the chip of the old block, the daughter of nationally acclaimed eminent artist M. Senathipathi of the erstwhile Madras Art Movement. An artistic career spanning over three decades, she has dedicatedly worked […]

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Inside the Wild Mind of Ranjit Balmuchu: Landscapes, Layers, & Lament

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Ranjit Balmuchu. Landscape. Acrylic on canvas board, 20x16 in.

Meet Our Artist of the Week – Ranjit Balmuchu Ranjit Balmuchu is our Artist of the Week. He is an illustrator, comic artist, animator, and creative designer whose prospect lies in abstract landscape art. Balmuchu studied at the School of Architecture at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Ranjit Balmuchu’s Art Style Ranjit Balmuchu’s art style chronicles the

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Gunasekar Jeyapal’s Sculptures Report on the Government’s Inadequacies

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Gunasekar Jeyapal. Life In The City II (2020). Bronze and Wood, 36x15x12 in.

Meet Artist of the Week – Gunasekar Jeyapal Gunasekar Jeyapal (b. 10th May 1985) is our Artist of the Week. The 39-year-old artist completed his BFA (2009-2013) and MFA (2014-2016) in sculpture from the Government College of Fine Arts, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. Gunasekar Jeyapal’s Early Life and Career Jeyapal was born and raised in the

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Satyendra Kumar’s Forms Enliven the Remenants of Banaras

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Reflection of Banaras, Bronze, (11x10x8 in)

Meet Satyendra Kumar Satyendra Kumar is an artist from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. Despite hailing from a backward family, with no educational environment, he cultivated a passion for art. After graduating 12th grade, he enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He developed the nuances of sculpting simultaneously completing his BFA, MFA

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Naina Somani’s Artwork Is a Message of Humanity and Peace

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Enclosure beneath the Marine Foliage (2021), Woodcut, (22x32 in)

MEET Naina Somani!! Naina Somani is our Artist of the Week. She is a freelance artist, Printmaker and Research Scholar based in Udaipur, Rajasthan. She has a knack for creative visualization. She completed her Bachelor’s in English (Hons.) & Visual Arts in 2018. Soon she found herself in Masters in Visual Arts at Mohanlal Sukhadia

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Saroj Prakash Bandi Explores Memory and Silence by Capturing the Essence of Forgotten Spaces

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Saroj Prakash Bandi is a visual artist, whose works come forth as still meditations on time, memory and space. Bandi’s painting of the poetry of silence is rooted in a highly personal relationship with the ephemeral and the overlooked. In a poetic dance of abstraction, shadow and texture, the artist beckons us into the quiet

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How Does Rishin Zaman Combine Realism and Emotion in His Figurative Art?

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Rishin Zaman, a final-year painting student at the Government College of Fine Arts in Thrissur, Kerala, has become something of a quietly probing artist, whose pieces present private snapshots of the mundane. Descent for beauty is the ordinary: Zaman’s subjects are from his own world of family and neighbours, of quotidian tenderness. His grandmother serves

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