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At first glance, the colourful floral patterns in Suhasini Kejriwal’s work seem pleasant, simple renderings. The artist works with painstaking detail, using intricate patterns and painted lines that might even be called decorative. On a closer examination, however, one encounters several elements amidst the leaves and flowers that shock the viewer and disrupt the balance of the entire work of art.
Executed in mixed media on...
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At first glance, the colourful floral patterns in Suhasini Kejriwal’s work seem pleasant, simple renderings. The artist works with painstaking detail, using intricate patterns and painted lines that might even be called decorative. On a closer examination, however, one encounters several elements amidst the leaves and flowers that shock the viewer and disrupt the balance of the entire work of art.
Executed in mixed media on canvas or in painted and decorated fiberglass, the artist’s work is an interesting amalgamation of the straightforward and the quirky. A crocodile eye peeping dangerously out of a seemingly passive bed of flowers heightens the drama of a composition. Kejriwal’s work also shows how several disparate parts often come together to form an incoherent whole, and yet how meaning exists only in the juxtaposing of these elements.
Born in 1973, Kejriwal completed her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the Parsons School of Design, New York, in 1998, a Post-Graduate Diploma from Goldsmith's College, London, in 1999; and then a Master’s degree in Fine Art at the same institution in 2006. Amongst her solo exhibitions are ‘An Advertisement for Heaven or Hell’ at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, in 2009; ‘The Garden of Un-Earthly Delights’ at the Anokhi Museum, Jaipur, in 2009; and at Nature Morte , New Delhi, in 2005; Gallery Ske, Bangalore, in 2003-04 and 2002; and Chitrakoot Gallery, Kolkata, in 1998. Kejriwal has also been a part of several group shows including ‘All that’s Solid Melts into Air’ at Indar Pasricha Fine Art, London, in 2006; ‘Inverted Tree’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, in 2005; and ‘Anthology of Art’ at Groupis – Bau Berlin in 2004.
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Born
1973
Education
2005-06 Master of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London University.
1999-2000 Assistant Graduate ,Goldsmiths College, London University
1998-99 Pg. Diploma, Goldsmiths College, London University.
1995-98 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Eden', Nature Morte, New...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Eden', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2010 'Eden', Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin
2009 ‘An Advertisement for Heaven or Hell’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2009 ‘The Garden of Un-Earthly Delights’, The Anokhi Museum, Jaipur
2005 Nature Morte , New Delhi
2003-04 Galleryske, Bangalore
2002 Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1998 Chitrakoot Gallery, Kolkata
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 'The Conscious Stream', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2011 'Tolstoy Farm: Archive of Utopia', presented by Seven Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'Conundrum', Bose Pacia, New York
2006 ‘All That’s Solid Melts into Air’, Indar Pasricha Fine Art, London
2005 ‘Inverted Tree’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2004 ‘Anthology of Art’, Groupis – Bau, Berlin
2004 ‘Secrets: The Spectacle Within’, Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi
2003-04 ‘Portraits of a Decade’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata ; Mumbai
2003 ‘Performative Textures’, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2003 ‘The Hues of Bengal’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2002 ‘Borderless Terrain’, India Habitat Cente r, New Delhi
2001 ‘Art of Bengal: 150 Years of Art in Bengal’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata; National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2000 ‘Assembly’, Stepney City, Whitechappel, London
2000 ‘Shatabdi: Hundred years of Indian Painting’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2008 With Tushar Joag at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007 With David Sequira at Nature Morte, New Delhi
Participations
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'India Awakens: Under the Banyan Tree', Essl Museum, Austria
2009 'ArtBaselMiamiBeach', presented by Nature Morte/ Bose Pacia
2007 Art Brussels , Grusenmeyer Gallery, Brussels
2007 International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale 2007 - International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale, Incheon
2006 Art Cologne, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Cologne
2006 Celeste Art Prize Finalist's Show, London
Honours and Awards
2006 Celeste Art Prize Finalist
1995-98 Parsons Honor Scholarship
Sidewinder. Month long residency in Kolkata, organized by CIMA Gallery, the British Council, and Goldsmiths College London
2006 Celeste Art Prize Finalist
1995-98 Parsons Honor Scholarship
Sidewinder. Month long residency in Kolkata, organized by CIMA Gallery, the British Council, and Goldsmiths College London
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Lot 9
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Absolute Tuesdays
17 August 2021
Untitled
Mixed media on paper
32 x 23.75 in
Winning bid
$5,460
Rs 3,98,580
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Absolute Tuesdays
1 September 2020
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
23.75 x 35.75 in
Winning bid
$3,233
Rs 2,36,040
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