Artist name: Ashok Bhowmick
Artwork: Acrylic,pen & ink on paper
Dimension: 24 inch (H) X 18 inch (W)
About the Artist: Ashok Bhowmick, a senior renowned artist from India is also known as a “Master of Cross-hatching”. Ashok is a multitalented individual and practising artist for more than four decades. Apart from being an exceptionally good painter, he is also an experimental sculptor and a profound thinker and writer.Be it paper or canvas, small or large, Ashok fills the spaces with his unique cross-hatching rendered with pen and ink. He creates darker spaces with a dense mesh of lines while lighter areas are achieved through controlled arrangements of lines. It is indeed a matter of utmost dedication that has made his paintings so exclusive that it has become his inimitable signature.
Artist Education: Graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft with a diploma in Fine Art, Calcutta 1975
Artist Solo Exhibitions:
- 2008 'Alchemy of Enigma', Tamarind Art, New York
- 2005 ‘Street child and other Paintings', Hamail Art Galleries, Lahore, Pakistan
- 2004 ‘Warli and other Paintings', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2004 'Selected Works', Kumar Gallery, Delhi
- 2001 'Recent Works', Katayun Gallery, Kolkata
- 1999 'Works On Paper', Admit One Art Gallery, New York
- 1997 'Manushi and other Paintings', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1996 'My City, My Childhood', Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 1994 'Undulations', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1993 'Ganesha', Artists' Centre, Mumbai
- 1991 'Recent paintings', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1
- 983 'Amidst the darkness', Allahabad University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
- 1980 Sun and the Beggar, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 1980 Sun and the Beggar, Nehru Hall, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
- 1974 Ashok - 74, Indian Medical Hall, Kanpur
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