Drawing inspiration from her own life and complexities of the modern human condition, artist Tara Sabharwal’s works are all about being human. The artist is all set for her solo show in the Capital. In other rooms is Sabharwal's collection of watercolour and prints that will be on display at Art Alive gallery.
Originally from Delhi, Sabharwal is now based in Manhattan. 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.
Sabharwal 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'.
Sabharwal’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.
She 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.