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Mona's style exudes tremendous vitality. Her art – mainly oils on canvas – is a powerful amalgam of line, color, form and texture, charged with resonating emotional energy. Line and color become in her compositions, expressive elements in their own right. Expanses of vivid red, black and white are her usual color frames within which strongly delineated forms move in their illuminations of subtly welded color.
We are visually moved by Mona's dramatic exploration of pictorial opposites – contrasts of dynamic and static elements; surging color forms and flat chequerboard areas; amorphous contours and geometrical shapes; broad fields of color and thin patterned lines; fine and thick textures. Explosions of color are fenced in boxes; or tied with strong squiggly lines.
Yet closer examination of her apparently abstract visuals, reveals that the artist never rejects the image – it is nascent yet powerful, poised between form and formlessness, struggling to break out of it's womb of color; an arched bird's neck in ‘Swan Lake', a sleekly stretched woman's form in ‘Flight under Water', a monumental horse head in ‘Surreal Animal', and a powerfully tender silhouette in ‘Mother and Child'.
Constantly experimenting, Mona uses texture with imagination – sometimes crafting her own grained paper – to add depth to her compositions. In her first figurative series, ‘Birds', intricate weaves and filigrees of powerful lines form themselves into mythic beings of pure imagination. Mobile in their expressiveness, they yet seem engraved into rough-textured backdrops of wood or rock, plumed creatures entombed in their prime, and fossilized in stone.
Spirit, emotion, senses and evolving creativity unite organically in Mona's art.
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About the Artist
Born: 1972 Kolkata , India
Education: Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA). Honors in the stream of Drawing & Painting (Western Style), Government College of Art & Crafts, Kolkata
Solo Exhibitions
- 2001 Alliance Francaise Kathmandu Nepal ‘Color of the Mind'
- 2000 Alternative Art Gallery Kolkata ‘Spiritual Expressions'
- 1998 Gallery Romain Rolland, “Carte Blanche Aux Jeune Creative” Exhibition organized by Alliance Francaise de Delhi at Paris
Selected Group Exhibitions & Participations
- 2004 Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi , 46 th National Exhibition of Arts
- 2004 Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata, Annual
- 2002 Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata, ‘Young Faces in Contemporary Indian Art'
- 2001 Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi 44 th National Exhibition of Arts
- 2001 Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata ‘Time', by RAD
- 2000 National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai, by Western Railways
- 2000 Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi Millenium Show ‘Their Theory'
- 2000 Alliance Francaise, Hyderabad
- 2000 Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata, Millenium Annual
- 2000 Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata, ‘Graphics Painting & Sculpture' organizer RAD
- 1999 Surya Art Gallery Hyderabad
- 1999 Birla Academy Kolkata, & Image India Gallery N. Delhi , ‘In Memoriam'
- 1999 Gajah Gallery Singapore , ‘Indian Contemporary Paintings'
- 1999 AIFACS N. Delhi , 70 th All India Art Exhibition Part II
- 1998 Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata, 66th All India Annual in ‘Commemoration of 50 th year of Indian Independence'
- 1998 Hotel Oberoi Grand Kolkata, ‘Green Blob', by RAD, RCCI
- 1998 Dhoomimal Gallery N.Delhi, ‘ Ravi Jain'
- 1998 Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata ‘Mixed Bag'
Awards
- National Scholarship (Painting)
- Bharat Nirman Award (Art & Painting) 2004
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