Cityscape

Born in 1965 in the small coastal town of Udupi in Karnataka, Gurudas Shenoy is an acclaimed artist with a career spanning over two decades. Having been born to senior artist G.S. Shenoy, he lived and breathed art since the day he was born, and developed a passion for the colours of nature at an early age. M.F. Husain, a close friend of his father's, was a mentor, and has hugely inspired Gurudas Shenoy's journey as an artist. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group shows at leading art galleries in India, including several at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. Known for his abstract and vibrant cityscapes, Gurudas Shenoy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda in 1988. Shenoy’s passion for nature and its brilliant hues, and cities with their vibrancy and multitude of stories, reflects in his paintings. Dexterous use of colours, lines, light and textures, forms the crux of his stunning abstract cityscapes, capturing the dynamism of architectural spaces with their historicity. Gurudas Shenoy also revisits landscapes from the past - vast abstract terrains, with their undulating surfaces and shadows on the ground. While his medium of choice is oil on canvas, the award-winning artist has a fondness for watercolours, and after much experimentation, he has managed to create a watercolour-like lightness in his oil paintings. Over the years, drawings, paintings, installations and murals have been a part of Gurudas Shenoy’s art practice. Several of his murals form prominent landmarks in various centres of the corporate world and his paintings and installations are located at corporate and private institutions and residences in India and abroad. A member of the South Kanara Art Council (SKAC) and the Bombay Art Society, Gurudas Shenoy was also the curator for M.F Husain’s museum, “Husain Sankalana”, in Bangalore, from 1991 till its closing in 2008. He is a recipient of the Bendre-Husain National Award by the Bombay Art Society, and has also founded the Shenoy Art Foundation, which support young, upcoming artists. Gurudas Shenoy lives and works in Bangalore.

I am from rural area of India. I like village life very much. I am working as painter from past ten years. Being a painter is very important for me because i want expresses myself through this medium.

My work is a way of expressing myself to the world. I have a sense of belongingness to the rustic and pastoral Indian lands. Furthermore, I reckon that the woman is the most magnificent creation of god. I draw women in extremely simplistic ways, which is in fact contradictory to their power and potential. In my perspective, there can be nothing remotely enthralling as that of a village woman. Through my paintings, I seek to bring out their inner beauty and charm. Drawing women and the rural Indian lands serve me with immense pleasure and joy.

Sachin was born in Pandharpur but now resides in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He received a diploma in drawing and painting from Dalvis Art Institute, Kolhapur and subsequently, another diploma in Applied Arts from Abhinaw Kala Mahavidyalay, Pune. Sagare has developed his own unique style of charcoal painting. Apart from charcoal, he also works in oils, watercolors and acrylics among many more mediums and techniques. Majorly, he displays his mesmerizing works at solo shows organized by him at art galleries such as Artquest Art Gallery, Sahil Art Gallery and Jahengir Art Gallery to name a few.

Sohan Jakhar My recent works addresses my relationship with the cities as well as my ancestry. The current body of work examines the visual dynamics of the roadside bazaar. Our street Bazaar is surrounded by visual stimulation, noisy visual chaos of vendors, hawkers. These vendors, hawkers dominate busiest urban landscapes. Here, a whole new world of images, sounds and gestures is evolving and gaining ground. Visuals of roadside stalls anticipate and announce the cultural and technological shifts.

Praveen Kumar is a Mangalorean armed with a BFA (Painting) at DMS, Mysore and an MVA (Painting) from Jain University, Bangalore. He has been recognized for his abstract work with awards such as the Leela Puraskar Indore (2014), the Sa-Mudra-Nirman-Puraskar (2012) and the Lalit Kala Akademi, and Karnataka State Award (2008). He loves to paint cityscapes, and Praveen’s work is a colorful representation of the grey we see around us. Praveen has been able to translate the pace of a city to the way he sees them. His 2D images, compel the viewer’s eyes to roam the outlines, explore the colors within, and breathe in the mixed hues around vertical and geometrical lines he has sketched. Praveen uses various mediums to express himself on the canvas. He has been known to use acrylic, charcoal, pen, and ink. He has also been a part of numerous art shows. Currently, he works out of Bengaluru as an Art Director for ‘Mesmerizers’ and takes up architectural design freelance work in his spare time.

Praveen Kumar is a Mangalorean armed with a BFA (Painting) at DMS, Mysore and an MVA (Painting) from Jain University, Bangalore. He has been recognized for his abstract work with awards such as the Leela Puraskar Indore (2014), the Sa-Mudra-Nirman-Puraskar (2012) and the Lalit Kala Akademi, and Karnataka State Award (2008). He loves to paint cityscapes, and Praveen’s work is a colorful representation of the grey we see around us. Praveen has been able to translate the pace of a city to the way he sees them. His 2D images, compel the viewer’s eyes to roam the outlines, explore the colors within, and breathe in the mixed hues around vertical and geometrical lines he has sketched. Praveen uses various mediums to express himself on the canvas. He has been known to use acrylic, charcoal, pen, and ink. He has also been a part of numerous art shows. Currently, he works out of Bengaluru as an Art Director for ‘Mesmerizers’ and takes up architectural design freelance work in his spare time.