PRESS RELEASE*
Payal Khandwala
ArtIndia Gallery, NY
August 4 - 27, 2007
Opening reception, August 4, 6–9pm
Payal's technique draws on her early training in textiles, and is inspired by organic color, texture and structure itself.
In her pieces, subtle, tentative transitions in color express in organic space.. The ambiguous.. The pulsating murmurs of color become intuitive and are perhaps central in weaving a visual sensation.
Through a delicate intermingling of hues and glazes, her surfaces evoke the quietness of a memory or a human impulse, its silent duality- at once fleeting and permanent.
Turning away from formalism, Payal aims to create a new aesthetic vocabulary, which communicates the emotion behind an experience, and replaces conventional symbols, is open to interpretation construct a physical reality for a unique intangible moment.
Born in 1974, brought up in Mumbai, Payal received her first Art Scholarship at the National Board Level in 1990. She graduated with a Diploma in Fashion Design from SNDT University, Mumbai in 1994, with several awards for Construction, Design and Illustration. In 1995 Payal moved to New York City on scholarship to pursue a degree at the Parsons School of Design. She graduated in 1999 with a BFA in Fine Arts and Illustration. Prior to having moved back in 2002, Payal's show at the Fine Arts Gallery, 2001, and her show at the Jehangir Art Gallery, 2003, both sold out on the preview. Her show of drawings at the Museum Gallery, 2004, in Mumbai did as well.
Her works are currently on consignment in galleries in New York and Mumbai and in several private collections in the US, India, France, England, South Africa and Belgium.
For more information, please contact:
ArtIndia Gallery, 206 5th Avenue, Fifth Floor, between 25th & 26th St.
T: (212) 725-6092; F: (212) 725-6096, newyork@aicongallery.com
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