REVIEW: Alaka Sahani, “Bold and Colourful,” The Indian Express, February 5, 2012
Bold and Colourful
Alaka Sahani : Sun Feb 05 2012, 01:50 hrs
When artist Sharmistha Ray’s friends were planning a trip to Jaipur some months ago, she was hesitant to join them. However, once she was in the north Indian city, steeped in history and culture, her mind was imbued with its character. Even after she returned to her adopted city of Mumbai, Ray found it hard to shake off this influence. Eventually, she found an outlet for it through art. Her painting, titled There are No Fixed Points, is dominated by the colour pink that famously happens to be this city’s signature hue.
REVIEW: Reshma Kulkarni, “Showcase: Canons of beauty,” The Hindu, February 4, 2012
Artist and art consultant Sharmistha Ray is back to her first love: painting, via “Hidden Geographies”, her first solo show after a stint as Managing Director of Bodhi Art Gallery (Mumbai). In this body of oils on canvas, Ray postulates canonical ideals of beauty and the sublime by distilling her memories, photographs, observations and experiences of landscapes, both urban and natural. The metascapes of Sharmistha Ray are suspended in time between mythos and reality, between abstraction and it’s opposite, exposing an intimate and charged topography of the subconscious mind.
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