An exhibition of paintings by Jasleen Singh / 25th to 31st August 09

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"Ports Of Call: 1979 – 2009" an exhibition of paintings by Jasleen Singh at Visual Arts Gallery, IHC - 25th to 31st August 09
 

Time : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

Entry : Free

Event Details : 'Ports Of Call: 1979 – 2009' The exhibition hronicles Jasleen’s evolution as an artist from her first solo exhibition to the present. She shares with her viewers select paintings from past exhibitions beginning with her first, held at Sridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi in 1979 and ending with her current series Symphonies - Writ in Colour which she presents for the first time in New Delhi. In doing this she invites the viewer to share in her journey.
Symphonies – Writ in Colour, comprises of paintings which started as a series of 13 works titled Life Lines, shown in NYC in 2007. On her return to India she continued to work and further explore the series, embracing the transformations that take place in the creative process when locales, environment and continents change. This progression is illustrated in the work through the variation in composition and scale, palette and stroke. The paintings took on a new life and meaning and Life Lines grew into Symphonies. “The ways of art are not easy ones. Not only does her mastery of the medium command respect, but… From each of the sweeping, vertically or horizontally wavering and surging, slow and silent works comes the charge of a music which will surely be audible to the inner ear of the listener…”
Symphonies – Writ in Colour, Keshav Malik, 2008.
In Ports of Call: 1979 – 2009 we are presented with the full spectrum of the artist’s oeuvre. In this way, the viewer is allowed to see the artist as a whole. That whole, for the artist, is a place where feelings and thoughts align without contradiction. We see the artist move through different styles and phases, from figurative to abstract, from large to small, her strokes spontaneous at one time, controlled at another.
At a private viewing of her work in New York City in 1987, Leo Castelli called her “a painter’s painter” and at her first solo show in New Delhi in 1979, Françoise Gilot–Salk saw in her work “the transparency of the soul.”
“Through the process of painting I search for a deeper communication - to try and understand the subtle and the abstract, the sacred and the metaphysical, the passionate and the still. To experience and communicate joy and despair, hope and hopelessness, desire and death in its multiple nuances. Through my paintings I seek to try and touch the essence of life” (Jasleen).

Jasleen Singh grew up in Delhi, India and has studied, lived and worked in various cities including New York, New Delhi, London and Sofia. After taking her degree from Delhi University she went on to study Art at Sir John Cass College and Hornsey School of Art in London, and Photography and Graphic Design at the New School in New York. Since 1978 she has devoted herself almost entirely to painting. She has had 15 solo exhibitions and participated in twice as many group shows in New York, London, New Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Goa.
Other projects have included cover design and illustrations for books of poetry, spatial art, architectural restoration and documentary photography. Post 9/11 she opened her studio in TriBeCa where she lived and worked since 1983 to the downtown arts community, hosting music and dance performances and workshops, art events and exhibitions at Jstudios as part of the recovery effort and healing process. She now splits her time between New York and New Delhi although she has been permanently based in India since 2006.

Place : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)