Sunday, 29 December 2013

An exhibition in Jaipur


ALL INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION 2014 
31st January - 2nd February 2014
at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur INDIA

featuring artists from India, USA, Germany, Spain, China, Switzerland, France, Africa, Turkey etc.

by parivesh kala sansthan. 

Art Affair 2013 affordable art show

Art Affairs
2013
60 Contemporary Artists
Affordable Paintings 

in Black and White 




Deviba Wala acrylic on canvas 

one of my paintings for the show Titled : 'They came from the sea'




Black and white painting Deviba Wala

'the silent scribe'




Thursday, 19 December 2013

Rashtriya Kala Utsav 2013

Jawahar Kala Kendra

Jaipur 


20th -22nd December



Deviba Wala n Alexander K Silva showcase their work at the event. 
All India Contemporary Art Exhibition

Monday, 4 November 2013

Tvak - AIAF photography Exhibition - Bas Jalsa

 An Exhibition of Photographs By Alexander Silva (U.S.A) in collaboration with local artist Palak Gajrawala.

The exhibit is an attempt to capture this characteristic of Ahmedabad

 Two visual Artists one from the city one who's here for the first time ...two artists from different genres and cultures present the city to the viewers as they see it , at the exhibition as part of the Ahmedabad International Art Festival during the last weekend of september, 2013



invitation card to the AIAF Event Deviba Wala, owner TVAK  will be curating the exhibition.


Alexander. K. Silva :Award winning artist Alexander Silva has been working on a photographic series that will be exhibited along with his installations that incorporate his photography.  An American-born artist who is known for his dynamic and imaginative photographs. He lives and creates his art in Ahmedabad, where he has been a resident artist at Tvak Residential Art Studios for the past five months. For the past seven years, Silva has been based in Los Angeles, California. Silva’s goal with his work is to always prompt a dialogue among viewers, and this series is no exception. 
Alexander Silva has won numerous awards including the Kodak Professional Photography Scholarship and was recently featured at the Linus Gallery in Pasadena, California. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo in 2012. 



Alexander 



Palak Gajrawala : A Desire to capture this boundless world  - its beauty and paradox - is what drives Palak’s Work. The ability of a photograph to steal a particular moment from Reality and bring it on print is what attracts her to photography. Her work is a mix of images from life to non-life, events to people and from festivals to those every day nothings.  In this series she captures the spirit of ahmedabad. The city's history is filled with stories of extraordinary resilience and has been a melting pot of cultures since last 10 millenia which is the reason behind the co-existence of such myriad forms of expressions. From sharing a chai (tea) to icecream parties, fancy music do’s to religious commemorations, traditional dance festivals to charity walks… there’s so many ways in which the city celebrates.


Palak

Deviba Wala : showcasing work in Italy

Festival Of Contemporary Visions

Italy 

Art Cloud #4” July 18th – 31th 2013 at  Multiverso
ARTISTS:

Paola Guerra (Italy), Michael Cheung (China), Marco Lami (Italy), Krykun Nataliia Vasylivna (Ukraine),  Camila Santin (Chile), Elodie Abergel (France-Israel), Deviba Wala (India), Nirit Zer (Israele).



The Invitation 




one of my works from the display : Deviba Wala

Info as on their site : 
The “Festival Of Contemporary Visions” will shake the contemporary art scene in Florence from April to July. A festival of visual art with participants from all over the world made up of 4 “ArtCloud” (exhibition sessions). In each of these, using the QRCode technology, the artworks will be expanded by key elements (color, word, sound…).




Thursday, 27 June 2013

Greg Smirnov : Invite to a Solo Exhibition : Paintings in Mixed Media


Greg Smirnov.
from Moscow, Russia
Artist in Residence at TVAK



Solo Exhibition 
"Viman - Engines Started"
28th - 29th June

at the Sheth C.N College of Fine Arts Gallery.

Timing : 4:30 - 8:00 Pm

Invitation


An Indian-born, self-represented artist from Moscow, Russia. Currently involved in the artist in residence program at Tvak residential art studios, Greg’s work is based on his impressions of revisiting India after living it at an early age.

He has a vision of India as a giant ancient mechanism (viman) of incomprehensible advanced technology based on faith and magic which is slowly coming to life as men and women are kept preoccupied with matters of their daily routine.








About His Work : 

I, like good double agent, keeping a straight face, deliver to you what I invent and announce as non-conceptual art, while keeping my fingers crossed behind my back. I do so out of curiosity for your reaction and for fun, because I like to challenge impossible tasks and because I must do it regardless of purpose. While this work is for the large part a semi-figurative reflection of my first impressions and resulting fantasy inspired by what I've seen in Gujarat during my stay, my long term focus is exploring ways of creating art that is detached from worldly matters and perceived reality,  Such as my ongoing work for the "Sunyata" series of abstract paintings and the "Subconscious refuge series.

   - Greg Smirnov.



to know more about his work check out the following links 



Thursday, 6 June 2013

Alexander Silva : photography & installation, work in process

Alexander. k. Silva
Photographer from the U.S.A
on a residency at 'Tvak' since march 2013




"Over the past four years, photography moved from being a hobby, to a passion, to a feeling, to my entire existence. Even before I set up my camera, the colors and details captivate and fill my mind and spirit. People who've seen me work can attest to this transplantation into an alternate time and space, where my primal thoughts become the imaginative dreams of my viewers. Always searching for a catalyst for social discussion, my work often captures both sincere and severe feelings amongst viewers, combining artistic elements kitsch, porn, and commercial art without judgement or explanation. The work currently underway at the residency questions issues of identity, object, and erasure." says Alexander.

It’s been a busy time !


some photos of the installation piece in progress which will showcase the
 street photography
 at the residency and 
a couple of pictures from the “big head’ or
'Foreigner in a Foreign Land' Series,
at the local sunday market.







Celebrating 'Holi' The Festival of colours ! 




There will be an Exhibition featuring his work at the end of term...
watch this space for more information
&
 more information regarding his work on the following links :









Monday, 27 May 2013

Sherri Hollaender : From New York





Sherry Hollaender
New York

Artist In Residence 
at Tvak

A Series of work inspired by India, Especially her time spent in Gujarat
Her work has the Yantra and Bindi and Experiments with Dymaxion template
 (deconstructed yantras). 
sherri is an extensive traveller and this is incidentally her 19th trip to India. 




She is the adjunct instructor at the Parsons School of Design.




Sherri at work. . .


An open house and private viewing of her work created during the residency was held on : 
13 th December - 
5:30 to 8:30 Pm








The Open house was well attended by young and eminent artists and art enthusiasts from the city.



Saturday, 18 May 2013

Anastasia Alexandrin : Artist Residency



Anastasia Alexandrin 

Artist in Residence at TVAK

Ahmedabad.


Anastasia Alexandrin, Ukrainian born American, Philadelphia–based artist is known for her ability to make art from the trappings of everyday life and to question traditional ways of seeing, she could almost be characterized as an artist-anthropologist who uses drawing embodied in line and at times theatrical instances of materialized thought to pursue an open-ended formal dialogue between form, style, material, and meaning; exploring assertions, solutions, and propositions rather than questions or problems. She turns expectations and stereotypes upside-down.







drawing on the intangible, unstable, and fleeting qualities of circumstance as both subject and metaphor to address ideas of women, juvenescence, and culture. But her interests extend beyond a feminist cultural critique. She creates a sense of wholeness from fragments, piecing, editing, suturing multiple points of view to create a sense of moving through spaces, extending time. In her work images are fixed, but the vanishing point is usually in motion, and unstable. Sometimes there is an illusion of seamlessness, but the drawings are fractured and composed of multiple, often fluid, points of view. 




A few of the artists from ahmedabad were invited for the West Zone Sculpture Camp and Anastasia was invited along to Interact with and see the working process of 25 sculptors.
Below : Photographs of Udaipur and the sculpture camp.















An Exhibition Showcasing her work was held at the end of the three month stay. 

A glimpse of one of the works on display: 
A set of six drawings. 









About Her Work : She says "My work deals with ideas and telling stories. Each drawing is a story. It is mostly about women and their thoughts and emotions. I try to communicate the emotions of the modern day woman, the woman you meet on the street, her feelings about the world, her struggles and her view point. I tend to slant toward positive empowering thoughts and emotions. I lean towards expressing aesthetics and beauty, the sublime. I draw strong woman full of mystery and meaning that is understandable to our day and age. In this exhibition there is a series deconstructing the layers of emotions a woman can wear using symbolism of sunglasses, hat and bird to convey the emotional intonations. It is a deconstruction of what lays within or perhaps beyond the social veneer that I am exploring in this show."








A Few Questions Answered : 

What made you come to this residency?
I was very interested in India and the culture. my focus is on women and i wanted to live in that environment and be influenced by everything i saw and heard. I was also very intimidated because I didn't know a lot about what to expect but something told me to just go! And I am so happy I did. I found the website very helpful and informative, as well as my email correspondence. I knew I was in good hands.

What can you tell me about your experience at the residency?
My first impression was Wow! I can really create here! The house has this amazing creative energy about it that makes you want to create in a whole new way that is still your own but has expanded in some way. Everyday I woke up and wanted to work!  I started to draw immediately when I arrived. I usually take a while to get started but here the creative juices just started to flow.
         And the more I drew the more parts of India started to creep in. Bit by bit. I made more art in the three months I was there then I usually make in six months at home. I am thrilled!
I also met extraordinary Indian artists and people in general. I enjoyed the culture so much and was lucky enough to be welcomed to be apart of all the festivities and activities around me.
India is full of wildlife and nature. I have never seen so many birds, cows, monkeys, camels...the list goes on. It was beautiful and enchanting. I made friends with many dogs too! Infact two sweet puppies kept me company the whole time I was there, and as if they new I was leaving they left themselves one day. Animals in India are very perceptive, they look you right in the eye and they see you!

Has anything changed for you because of your residency?
I feel like everything has changed since my residency at Tvak.
I have been given a gift to see and experience a whole new way of life. To live in a whole new way filled with crazy unimaginable moments, with laughter and friendship, with tuk tuk ( Auto-rickshow) driving, monkeys and so much more.
The way I think has shifted, my views as an artist, what it means to be an artist has changed and I have found much more comfort in my own skin since then..
Oh and being in India has made me a sculptor ! I finally understood what conceptual art was. 


Anastasia is an Artist par Excellence and an amazing warm person, All who have met her have greatly been influenced by her dedication to work and resilient spirit.
Wishing her all the best for the future. !!