Somu Desai

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Somu Desai 
Untitled
Oil & Acrylic On Canvas
72"x60"
2011

Somu Desai graduated in fine art from College of Art at Amalsad. Working from Mumbai for a decade first as a fashion designer, muralist and an architectural assistant he did several commissioned public sculptures. The experimentation in different media helped refine his skills before he returned to his native land and set up his own studio at Valsad and continued working on projects in various parts of the State. Along with a group of artists he worked on a huge mural converting a factory in Baroda into his canvas and titled it Vibrant Gujarat. His other projects include Still in Baroda and Thrill in Baroda, attempts to define the city as an abode for artists and as a cultural hub. His compositions are large and involve different stages of masking and revealing giving an extra depth and dimension to the work. Involving different groups of people from within the surrounding area as well as young artists, his art focuses on people at work, carrier wagons, children and others. Portrayal of vehicles in myriad ways such as an overloaded lorry or airplanes as flying machines the artist works in different media including digital work and video art.
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Chintan Upadhyay

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Chintan Upadhyay
Sorry does not matter any more, 2006
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 
60 x 60 in / 152 x 152 cm

"My philosophy is created work by work. I don't decide beforehand what I will do; I have to go through the process of painting." When painting, he "starts with color. Many layers and forms come and go until I get something, and develop it. I end with the surface that I intended."
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Veena Bhargava

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Veena Bhargava 
Title: Performer Series VIII
Medium: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Size: 68" x 56"

Working primarily with oils and acrylics, Bhargava, nevertheless, has experimented with many mediums. Her work with encaustic was one of her first experiments with textures. In the '80s, Bhargava created two assemblages with junk wood and scrap iron found from building demolitions. One of these assemblages was the result of a workshop with Piloo Pockhanawalla. In 1983, Bhargava did a course in photography at Chitrabani, Calcutta. The photographic image has always fascinated Bhargava and, of late, she has been juxtaposing silk screen images with her paintings.

Bhargava's work has been predominantly figurative although, in the early years, she had done some semi-abstract lithoid forms. The decaying city has always figured prominently in her works. Architectural elements and other symbols or urban anomie like a crowded bus, an open manhole, graffiti and posters, surface in her works again and again. The other important feature of her figuration is the iconography of a woman. Sometimes she is Kali, at other times she is a bound, distorted body or a street performer juggling with the roles in her life. Of late, Bhargava has been experimenting with the surface of the painting adding three-dimensional objects or silk-screen images. She is also introducing elements of myth and fantasy to her strongly expressionistic style of painting.
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Yusuf Arrakal

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Yusuf Arrakal 
Untitled 
Oil On Canvas 
2005 
Arakkal's paintings are singularly expressionistic in style. In them one could trace the artist's "deep concern for man and society. Set against a dark, oppressive background are the faceless figures of ordinary people expressing brooding loneliness and despair brought on by a society obsessively drawn towards material success where ordinary people have no place".He has done many works in different media, canvases, sculptures with emphasis on tiger conservation..
There are many books and articles published on the creative world of Yusuf Arakkal in different languages.
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Vijay Bagodi

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Vijay Bagodi 
Remembering Bhupen 
Etching: 4/24 
Color: Black, 20/16 in
Graphics: Limited edition Print

Artist note:"If u drop a pebble in a pond, it creates concentric circles, one after the other, which slowly diffuse into numerous ripples at the edge...as illusions of what has taken place." His works are like ripples...born out of lived experiences. Distinct references to the personal or the universal fuse into ambiguity. "My expressions are in the form of remembered tales, legends and myths. Emotions resurface in my works carrying past into the present and present into the future."
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Laxman Aelay

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Laxman Aelay 
Acrylic On Canvas 
18"/18" 
Laxman Aelay (born 1964) is an Indian painter. His muse has been the live of poverty stricken people from his village and specific culturality of a village with men, women against the backdrop of their homes. He likes doing monochromes.
Before Laxman Aelay chose to become a professional artist, he was a signboard painter and then a much sought after and respected designer and illustrator of books. His work was highly thought of within Telegu literary circles, but soon the painter in him compelled Aelay to enroll in college for a degree in Fine Arts, even though he had already received a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Surekha

Artville Contemporary Artist of The Day
Surekha
Spaces of Silence
2010
Digital print on archival paper
15.5 x 11.5 in

Surekha is a contemporary Indian video artist whose works showcase themes including Indian identity and Womanhood. She has been a full time artist since 1996 and her video works have been shown at galleries outside India since 2001. Her works are known for the mix of video and physical presence, highlighting inherent experiences. Surekha has been exploring the possibilities of the video form, negotiating the public and private, locating the body as a site of contestation and appropriation. She uses photography and video to archive, document and perform.
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