Download PDF (23 K)SEEMA GHURAYYA
Born 1964, Gwalior
Studied National Diploma, Specialization in Painting (1986)
M.F.A in painting, Jiwaji University, Gwalior (1986)
Seema Ghurayya's paintings seem almost as if a sort of quietness and solitude has sheathed them, making each one seem to carry a deep and personal meaning. At first glance, don't seem very striking or dramatic. These very contemporary works are an expression of the feelings that the artist has experienced rather than an effort to establish a connection and communication with the viewers. Ghurayya has refrained from using any recognizable forms, and never links or refers to anything that has a natural appearance in her canvases. She has given up ostentation and lavishness, instead choosing light airy colors and very sparing strokes.
Ghurayya uses color palette that absorbs and compliment the geometrical lines and figures she etches onto the canvases. For subjects she chooses abstract and inexpressible things, like silence, lightness and freshness. Things that have no communicable form or structure, making her work also representative of an effort to give something intangible its first taste of expression through her visual vocabulary. In her serene and cool pieces, she gives form to the formless, and expression to things that could never have had any before. Some consider her paintings to be a vague new-fangled experiment in abstract, the late modernist; J. Swaminathan had nothing but praise for them. "Her abstractions resound with the rhythm of a musical scales, there is something precious and chaste in her works."
Select Group Exhibitions
2007 Summer Show 2007, CIMA - Centre International Modern Art, Calcutta