Anil Revri's elegant and subtle geometric abstractions are lyrical visual poems that induce contemplation. At once sensual and serene, they resonate in the viewer's interion and exterior worlds.
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"It's about finding out who these people are, and finding out who I am in the process."
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"Hiroshi Senju, one of the world's most revered and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, is a painter with divinity."
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"...Sundaram Tagore...bringing the likes of Hiroshi Senju from Tokyo..."
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"Among the returning dealers is New York's Sundaram Tagore Gallery which is bringing a selection of richly hued abstractions, priced between $25,000 and $250,000, by the likes of Natvar Bhavsar and Hiroshi Senju, who were born in Gujarat, India, and Tokyo, respectively."
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"Among the returning dealers is New York's Sundaram Tagore Gallery, which is bringing a selection of richly hued abstractions, priced between $25,000 and $250,000, by the likes of Natavar Bhavsar and Hiroshi Senju, who were born in Gujurat, India, and Tokyo, respectively."
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"..elegance and punch and is more than just surface deep."
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"...Senju expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques unique to Japan."
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"...His [Qadri's] art is informed by this spiritual journey, paricularly by his practices as a Vajrayana Buddhit and yogi."
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"Meditative scenes of the artist working in her studio and adding layers of paint to the large canvas . . . are paired with Murray's fascinating voice-over observations. Scenes from a 2005 New York art exhibit, slides of her work, and commentary from an art historian and other experts add depth to this illuminating program."
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"One does not merely look at a Bhavsar work, one is transported by it. It is as if the artist has bottled up the night sky, dusted it in poweder pigment and cast it out in great dreamlike bursts. The result is a textured canvas that pulses with dimension; grainy up close, smooth and wispy from afar."
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"Abstract, hybrid artworks that engage the eyes and resonate emotionally."
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"Together the works reflected Wagner's long-standing interest in the interplay between the abstract and the representational..."
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"Born in India, Qadri's oeuvre reflects his early exposure to Sufism, Hinduism and Sikhism, as well as his connection with Vajrayana Buddhism, with which he remains involved."
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"The Islip show 'Surface Impressions' features topographical works such as La Forza Del Destina "
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"Bhavsar's imagery conjures cosmic impressions, like nebulae expanding in a brilliant dance of colored light or stars mingling in a gravitational waltz through space."
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"The artist gets a remarkable range out of the method, producing big, star-studded Milky Ways on indigo backgrounds, swirling smile storms, pimply white surfaces that look like clotted cream, and floating lozenges of color, usually a square centered on a contrasting color, that remind you of Mark Rothko."
"Matino ... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization."
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"For the past decade, Matino has explored the color tradition of India, while continuing to develop a capacity for transforming the limits of our perception off color."
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"[Nathan Slate Joseph's] reliefs equally suggest the natural world and the exuberant energies of Abstract Expressionism."
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"As is often the case with Wagner, the raw, angular industrial quality of the steel is leveraged for its potential for poetry."
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"Her current exhibition at Sundaram Tagore splits the difference with a collection of new representational constructions..."
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"Rutgers 1st university in U.S. to hold solo show by South Asian artist."
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"A selective overview of 4 decades of Bhavsar's art opens at Rutgers."
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"...one of Japan's most revered and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists showed 27 murals at Japan's Yamatane Museum of Art..."
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"Murray's paintings . . . speak with sophistication and energy."
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"Tracing contemporary Queer Art in cracks and rips."
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"Political art is back, with artists responding to the American invasion of Iraq in full force . . . [Petry] raises intriguing questions. Why should we love our country when this nation forces us undercover and blatantly discriminates?"
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"The rhythmic brushstrokes . . . establish layers of underpainting that give depth to the work and to its colors, while the band grounds and guides the picture's energy."
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"We're now seeing an increasing number of western faces in the Indian galleries and the auction houses in New York and London."
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"...Bhavsar's paintings are not limited to their surface colors - which are indefinable, suffused as they are with additional tones such as violet, saffron, rose, vermillion, cinnamon, midnight blue, and emerald, tinged warm and cool. Thier surfaces can resemble smoke when the hues evanesce, or they can be more tangible, pebbled textures and raised patterns, edged in a flame motif..."
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"...designs that unite the formal large-scale energy of Abstract Impressionism with the easy of found object art."
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"...a group of four gloriously shimmering works [by Hiroshi Senju] from this acclaimed series."
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"Hiroshi Senju is renowned for his unique combination of modernism and ancient methods of Japanese painting."
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(Joseph's work appears in the publication image. His piece graces the dining room wall of Jean Georges, a New York restaurant that overlooks Columbus Circle.)
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"Sohan Qadri's single color works seem to ripple down the surface of the paper on which they are made. These are fine, thoughtful works by an artist who is acutely aware of simplicity and the power of a single color and the hues within it."
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"Joseph works with small sheets of galvanized steel that are created with chemicals, acids and pigments in order to create a distinctive patina and with clearly defined edges. He then selects sheets fro within a fairly limited color range, then solders them together, creating patch-work patterns that make up a punctuated yet uninterrupted flow of space."
"Yet New York remains one of the vital souks for Indian art and the place where many star artists do present solo shows of their work."
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"Crisp and contemporary, an apartment on the upper eastside gives new meaning to minimalism. "
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"...there are no lines, blocs or squares anywhere in Bhavsar's work, which is soaked with energy yet without any precise outline or source, like cosmic clouds..."
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"They represent the confluence of East and West in a world which is in a whirl."
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"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."
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"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."
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"Petry . . . constructs a space where viewers can look at his work like they look at history - from all sides - revisiting old reminiscences and creating new experiences."
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"Sundaram Tagore was excited to find this ground floor space and saw the rough industrial space for what it could be..."
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"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating."
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"Looking back the Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents "Now and Then," a retrospective of the 76-year-old artist Susan Weil."
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"...The two things that stand out about Bhavsar's works are the colors and the sizes, both bold and magnificent. While critics noticed similarities between the size of his works and those of Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothco and Barnett Newman, none of these art greats were able to capture the color he was exposed to in his youthe in India..."
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"...Natvar Bhavsar is a color field painter who works in pure pigment. He is largely credited for bringing a spiritual element to the absrtact expressionism movement in America..."
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"When MADi started, it was revolutionary..."
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"In mediums that include painting, photography, and metalwork collage, the 14 artist from Sundaram Tagore Gallery will explore the tension between the two halves of our modern world, finding points of commonality and transcendence that inspire new ways of thinking and creating."
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"The Argentine Grupo Madi movement brings a geometric joie de vivre to Dallas."
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"Nathan Slate Joseph creates abstract compositions of pigmented galvanized steel."
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"Bhavsar works with dried granules of pigment in a very deliberate and precise approach, although it may appear random. What emerges are canvases that are deeply pictorial in nature. Some ofhis paintings are monumental--more than 30 feet in length--and lyrical, abstract attempts to reveal both the microcosmic and the macrocosmic universe."
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Joseph's work appears in a publication image of a Los Angeles home designed by Richard Landry of Landry Design Group.
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"But the first show of Indian contemporary art in the fair's history, from newcomer Sundaram Tagore of New York, also reflects heightened interest in that field Tagore has meditative paintings on paper by Sohan Qadri.."
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"In his collection of Modernist-flavored paintings, the strong colors, together with the patterns created by hsi signature combination of incisions and perforations, teem with more concetrated primal power than before."
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"...he now produces large non-objective paintings, notable for their rich dense palettes and variegated areas of color."
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"...which genres appear to be making breakthroughs and which artists should be on your wish lists."
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"Prominent dealers divulge where they see their markets heading, which genres appear to be making breakthroughs and which artists should be on your wish list."
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Sohan Qadri, "Fall", 2004, Ink and dye on paper
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"Sundaram Tagore, director of the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York, admires the abstract expressionist sculptures of New York artist Nathan Slate Joseph, whom he considers less well known than he should be."
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"My work is about connecting with the spirituality of people and cultures worldwide."
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"His novel use of pigments creates prized works."
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"Hiroshi Senju, one of Japan's most revered and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, will complete his work in December of 2006 on a set of 27 syohekiga murals to be donated to Shofuso."
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"[Murray] has reinvented an abstraction which is nature."
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"Waisler . . . [is] influenced by Hindu-Buddhist precepts, specifically the notion of the interrelated duality of creation and destruction."
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"Within a limited palette, he manages to obtain surprising tensions by deploying (mostly) symmetrical patterns that at one moments stress the picture place and at the next create an illusion of boundless recession."
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"Murray is exploring a difficult coloristic terrain . . . These painting are confined almost courageously to a narrow range of colors with the repeated admixture of white to vary them . . ."
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"Coming to the 21st century, we bade farewell to contemporary art of the 20th century . . . realizing that only art works which are recorded in history can lend us encouragement, vitality and healing."
"Qadri, talking about his process of painting, says: 'When I start on a canvas I first empty my mind of all images. They dissolve into a primordial space. Only emptiness should communicate with the emptiness of the canvas'... "
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"Senju says . . . artists can be recognized as worldwide ones only when their works have been publicly recognized as those which have a clear-cut philosophy and vision toward world peace and environmental conservation."
"Sundaram Tagore is a New York-based curator and gallerist. A descendant of the influential poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, he promotes East-West dialogues through his contributions to numerous exhibitions as well as his eponymous gallery and its multicultural and multidisciplinary events."
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"A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective-and highlights the responsibilities of the emigre Indian artist today."
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"Diasporic art is by definition hybrid, but has to be more than that to be meaningful."
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"Today's diaspora artists are scattered across the country and are more socio-economically and religiously diverse than their predecessors."
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"Sundaram Tagore is a New York-based curator and gallerist. A descendant of the influential poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, he promotes East-West dialogues through his contributions to numerous exhibitions as well as his eponymous gallery and its multicultural and multidisciplinary events."
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"A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective-and highlights the responsibilities of the emigre Indian artist today."
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"Diasporic art is by definition hybrid, but has to be more than that to be meaningful."
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"Today's diaspora artists are scattered across the country and are more socio-economically and religiously diverse than their predecessors."
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"When I contacted Sohan at his studio in Copenhagen, he explained why he had switched from painting on canvas to painting on paper: "Paper is much more feminine. Canvas is much more of a struggle. I am against struggle. Good art doesn't come out of struggle. Good art comes out of surrender."
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"What Bhavsar's paintings achieve is a remarkable intimacy that leads us into the present fusion of language, technology, and the transmission of form."
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"Our religion is imbued with colour."
"Happily, the delightfully inventive, variously formatted paintings, drawings and collages...serve as an introduction to both Joyce's words and world."
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"Stan Gregory's curvilinear bands of varying thickness laid on vivid minimal backgrounds are created in a painstaking, layered process. In this, he is heir to both the conventions of geometric abstraction and Islamic and Japanese calligraphic traditions."
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"...Natvar Bhavsar creates large compositions in which a cosmic vision emerges from lush materiality."
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"Murray's lyrical pictures are fraught with references to an earlier, distinctly French method of building up the surface. This . . . goes a long way toward explaining their emotional charge."
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"Weil's portrait of James Joyce teems with wit...the exhibition is a delight with invention nd pictorial virtuosity."
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"Made with ink and dye on handmade-looking paper, color is a key element in Qadri's work."
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"In particular, Qadri's color choices--mercury reds, peacock blues, and even stark black and grays-- underscore his Indian roots, while his sense of form points to his philosophical inclinations."
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"Stan Gregory[s] . . . work has been associated with the likes of Kandinsky and Matisse . . . [He] evokes the style of Islamic calligraphic art"
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"There is something reminiscent of the printmaker's sensibility in Wagner's romance with the metal plate."
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"Nathan Slate Joseph's work uniquely combines the large-scale exuberance of Abstract Expressionism with the laissez-faire mellowness of found-object art."
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"Vennum works in patterns that seem familiar, natural and continous..."
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"Facade designed by Nathan Slate Joseph in collaboration with Caples and Jefferson Architects."
"Harlem New Modernism"
-The New York Times, January 31, 2002_-
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"Whether dominated or flushed, weathered pastels radiating a hazy light around a few embedded geometric shapes . . . In them the eye plays hide and seek, probing the surface for what might be beneath."
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"A recognition of [Bhavsar's] place in the mainstream art world today was the release on Oct. 15 of a book on Bhavsar, written by a noted authority on American art, irving Sandler, and published by Craftsman House of Australia, at a reception at the home of noted art collectors Pat and Ben Heller, ...titled "Natvar Bhavsar: Painting and the Reality of Color," contain[ing] 42 plates of color that reproduce the complexities and nuances of the original, which ordinarily elude reproduction, with notable fidelity."
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"[Bhavar's] work occupies a unique place in mainstream contemporary art. It is distinguished by what is described as its "materiality." It is not figurative. It doesn't tell a story, nor communicate any idea. It contains no drama; it doesn't prove any point, preaches no moral. It is just there, by itself, existing all alone."
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"He is a masterful draftsman and was trained in India in an academic tradition. But colour is his thing. Although he has done figurative work and also went through a cubist phase, there has been an increasing de-emphasis on drawing in his work and a corresponding emphasis on colour. If you have to classify him, his is an abstract expressionist but his work is unique. They always remind me of the state of mind just before you awaken from a dream."
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"The gradations of rust that result are enhanced by a variety of other hues, and the final product has the effect of a carefully composed painting."
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"There is a hint of Russian Constructivism here, except that Joseph is random and informal in his relative spareness..."
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"Joseph has found a plein air working method that amounts to a virtual collaboration with the elements."
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"Nathan Slate Joseph is a collaborative artist who partners with nature. As he dabs, flings and brushes galvanized steel surfaces with earthy inorganic pigments and then treats them with acids to faciliatate their breakdown, he serves as the front man while weather toils away unnoticed in the back of the house. Making a studio of the great outdoors--or at least a potato field, the artist paints with wind, rain, and sunlight."
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"Sundaram's current passion is the work of a man of mystery. He is the Copenhagen-based painter cum tantrik, Sohan Qadri, who will have a one-man exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery starting on September 5."
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"Artist, poet Tantric guru Sohan Qadri has been immersed in painting and mediation for more than 30 years."
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