Lakeeren- The Contemporary Art Gallery

Shaurya Kumar Yashoda chastises her foster son, the youthful Krishna, Opaque watercolor on paper 6. 75 x 9.7 ... Kalpa Vriksha Lithograph 6.9" x 9.8" Women Worshipping a Shiva Linga Tempera on Paper 8.25" x 7.25" Visit the Dawn of Aquarius @www. Lakeeren.com for more details. A native of Delhi, India where he studied printmaking and painting at the College of Art; Shaurya Kumar graduated with his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2007. Since 2001, Kumar has been involved in numerous prestigious research projects, like The Paintings of India (a series of 26 documentary films on the painting tradition of India); "Handmade in India" (an encyclopedia on the handicraft traditions of India); and digital restorations of 6th century Buddhist mural paintings from the caves of Ajanta. Kumar's work has exhibited widely across the US and in countries including India, Taiwan, China, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, U.K., Norway, France, Australia and Finland among many others. His works have been installed at venues including the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai; UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque; SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque; Queens Museum, NYC; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai; Artifact Gallery, NYC; LACDA, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Georgia; Schneider Museum of Art, Oregon; Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas.

Nikhil Chopra 'Remembering Being There: First Star Agonda' Charcoal and Pastel on paper, 8 x 12 inches View the work at the exhibition The Dawn of Aquarious www.Lakeeren.com ... The drawings made in my studio often function as rehearsal acts for performances. There is a symbiotic relationship between both the modes of operation and creation, thinking through drawing but also through the body, time, and space. The many drawing performances made in the last six years echo the spirit of travel, transience, and nomadism. They engage with landscapes and cityscapes as subjects. They express my love for observation as an active form of engagement with a place. Most of my drawings emerge from this point, as they become the beginning of a dialogue. Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice ranges between live art, theatre, painting, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on issues such as identity, the role of autobiography, the pose and self-portraiture, reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Taking autobiographical elements as his starting point, Chopra combines everyday life and collective history; daily acts such as eating, resting, washing and dressing, but also drawing and making clothes, acquire the value of ritual, becoming an essential part of the show. The artist has exhibited and performed globally since 2005. Participation in important solo and group exhibitions include Lands, Waters & Skies, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2019); Lands, Waters & Skies, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India (2018); Drawing a Line Through Landscape, documenta14, Athens, Greece & Kassel, Germany (2017); Blackening VI, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK (2017); La Perla Negra, La Bienal de Habana, Havana, Cuba (2016); Use Like Water, Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015); Give Me Your Blood and I Will Give You Freedom, Singapore International Festival for the Arts (2014); Inside Out, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2012); Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing X, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai and the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2010). @nikhilchopra74 @chatterjeeandlal