In Other Rooms | Tara Sabharwal

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In Other Rooms | Tara Sabharwal

2nd September 2013 - 10th October 2013

Art Alive Gallery, S-221 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110017View Works

Art Alive presents ‘In other rooms’, a solo show of Tara Sabharwal. Tara’s watercolour’s and prints reflect upon the vicissitudes of her own life. Her imagery also strives to elucidate some of the complexities of the modern human condition.

Tara Sabharwal hails from Delhi and is now based in Manhattan, New York. She left India after completing her graduation at MS University, Baroda in 1980 to pursue an advanced degree at the Royal College of Art, London. Over a career that spans 30 plus years, she has been showing her works in India, USA, UK and Germany.

Her paintings are uniquely individual, intensely personal and yet entirely open to the world. Tara says “My paintings are remembered moments from a journey of outward and inner explorations.” Art critic Yehuda Safran writes, “Such a degree of inner self-regard, or inner dialogue, is as rare as it is difficult. It is solipsistic, on one hand, and totally open to the world on the other hand, all at once; at the same time it represents something perfectly communicable and totally opaque. In such dream-like states, we regain complete autonomy. This sovereign autonomy is the essence of Tara Sabharwal's paintings”.

Tara’s works are so near to each other thematically and in their subject matter and yet they are so different from each other as the particularity of each canvas gives it a reading all of its own. As if this very language has to be reborn each time, has to be always at the beginning again.

According to Andy McCord, New York based writer “Tara’s human figures are put through permutations and changes in relation to each other, played like phrases in music. They are distinct at one moment, seeming biological, even autobiographical. In another—or from another angle—they are merging, spectral emanations of spirit or mood.”

In Tara’s work one sees a palette of earth and sky and everything in between intimately and closely related to our possible experience of color in the world. Her use of color gives painting the quality of crystals, mineral layers of earth, water and air. In Tara’s pictures the air itself is to be felt in all the other elements. Artist Zarina Hashmi feels “Colour is essential to her practice as an artist, in her new body of work the exuberance of colours gives a vitality to organic forms.”

Tara creates small miniature type of watercolours, oils, drawings and mixed media pieces. Her works, based on a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures, show the influences not only from Indian mythology but also from European artists such as Much, Redon and Chagall, Bosch and Goya.

Tara Sabharwal

Bouyant 1
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Sacs 2
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Dense Rain 2
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Rain River Loop 2
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Rain River Loop 1
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Water Snake 2
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Water Snake 1
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Red Rain 2
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Red Rain
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Eye/ Memory
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Yellow Eye/ Renew 2
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Yellow Eye/ Renew 1
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Red Eye/ Fragment 2
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Red Eye/ Fragment 1
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Gold Eye/ Flow 2
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Right Eye, Left Brain
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Monotype, Cine Colle & Watercolour
Left Eye, Right Brain
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Monotype, Cine Colle & Watercolour
Right Eye
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Partners
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 76.2 x 55.88 | Inches : 30 x 22 | Casein
Bird
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Fall
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Tempera
Hill
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Gouache on Paper
Web Field
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Gouache on Paper
Garden/Sky Tree
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Monotype, Ink, Watercolour & Cine Colle
Garden, Pomegranate
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Ink, Watercolour & Cine Colle
Grasp
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 27.94 | Inches : 15 x 11 | Watercolour & Egg Tempera
Hanging On
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 27.94 | Inches : 15 x 11 | Watercolour & Egg Tempera
City Hoarding
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour & Egg Tempera
Holding Together
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 27.94 | Inches : 15 x 11 | Watercolour & Egg Tempera
Two Home
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 27.94 | Inches : 15 x 11 | Watercolour & Egg Tempera
White Rain
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Watercolour, Sumi-e Ink & Collage
Hidden Within
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Watercolour and Sumi-e Ink
Layered World
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Watercolour and Sumi-e Ink
Each Breath Its Own
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Watercolour and Sumi-e Ink
Birdland
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Watercolour and Sumi-e Ink
Secrets,Hiding Places 2
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Casein
Secrets,Hiding Places 1
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 55.88 x 76.2 | Inches : 22 x 30 | Casein
Sacs 1
Tara Sabharwal

Etching | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching
Primary Flowers
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 27.94 x 38.1 | Inches : 11 x 15 | Watercolour,Gouche & Collage
Night Rain
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Colour etching,Limited Edition of 20
Morning Rain
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Colour etching,Limited Edition of 20
In Other Rooms I Meet Myself
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 38.1 x 27.94 | Inches : 15 x 11 | Watercolour & Egg Tempera
Foliage 2
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching Limited Edition of 20
Foliage
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Hand Printed Colour Etching Limited Edition of 20
Dense Rain 1
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 15.24 x 15.24 | Inches : 6 x 6 | Colour etching,Limited Edition of 20
A Short Visit Home
Tara Sabharwal

Painting | Cms : 12.7 x 17.78 | Inches : 5 x 7 | Watercolour and Ink on Paper