About finding a niche:
An Indian American contemporary visual artist who began creating representational art from early childhood, my current foray into abstract art helps me pursue my ongoing journey as a visual artist with an independent means of expressing my ideas. From personal experience thus far, my efforts have succeeded in aiding my audiences in forming their impressions while relating to my work at the visual level: if not always through my statement, then alternately with the help of the colorfulness, variety of textures, hints at figuration and presence of circles referring to the human life cycle through which I convey my thoughts and emotions in my paintings.
For achieving my dream visual outcome, I present my thoughts on choice surface materials that are an integral part of my body of work. Some examples are canvas, Plexiglas, paper, anodized aluminum or linen, combined with acrylics and a variety of found materials that are not limited to oriental papers, gold leaf, sand and fibers to create mixed media. These materials are also incidentally my choice mediums with regard to courses and workshops that I have been teaching.
About work created for MGM Mirage:
My paintings in the Bellagio are based on a couple of my early works " Coruscation" and "A Momentary Glance" that were spotted by MGM Mirage, who wanted me to create larger versions that borrow from some of the forms and intense colors used in the originals. I then based the Bellagio paintings with the surrounding colors and brilliance of the Bellagio Conservatory indoor botanical garden. I am glad the resulting works are not limited with titles as many responses have linked the flowers of the Bellagio with the intense colors associated with my pieces. My current work is inspired by garden blooms, and the dream-like quality of happiness that I consider ephemeral and fleeting, comparing the emotion to transitional flowers of spring and summer seasons, visible as in a dream -short-lived. I have been inspired by Monet's garden in Giverny and landmarks such as the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, and hence flowers and gardens and the irresistible qualities of the seemingly random colors of nature and the outdoors yet so divinely organized in that nothing is ever jarring to the eye. I have endeavoured to use this quality of nature to my evolving paintings of the last few years.
For the Bellagio paintings, I initially planned to use a lot of color but ended up limiting my color palette as work progressed during late 2003 to September 2004 while refurbishment of the indoor of the Cafe Bellagio progressed, needing to be mindful of the background and surrounding color schemes in the form of periodic color swatches and surrounding architecture.
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