Artist Seema Pandey is showcasing a solo art exhibition at Shridharani Art Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam titled “Between These Lines: In this Space I Root and Grow” from 12th to 21st July.
She is presenting almost 100 artworks, a culmination of two years of meticulous artistry.
She has used different mediums like Acrylic and ink on canvas, Ink on Paper, Ink on canvas, Ink and Gouache on Paper.
The exhibition explores the subtleties of black and white contrasts, threaded with personal and environmental landscapes.
It presents a visual journey of tranquillity and contemplation, where each artwork speaks volumes about resilience and the human spirit. Through these lines she weaves moments, memories and dreams. Featuring a mix of miniature size and larger artworks, this collection embodies Pandey’s keen observations and creative exploration of diverse surroundings, memories and imaginations, that have shaped her holistic and free-spirited approach to art.
The rather intriguing title carries within it the bones of a carefully curated art project by Seema Pandey that has been two years in the making. Numerically, it comprises over 100 miniature sizes as well as larger artworks that carry in their DNA the aroma of an art conversation. They identify with a holistic and purposeful side of its maker, and yet remain free spirited enough to tell their individual stories through their locales, their materials, their forms and more.
Indeed, the concept behind this art undertaking reflects the artist’s keen observation and awareness of everything around her—whether during her travels, drives around the city, or her immediate surrounding at her workplace or home, from her experiences or imagination—and traces back in time to a two-year incubation period within a mental womb. Thereafter, the actual execution occupied a two-month hiatus, encompassing an astonishing set of locales, ranging from coffee shops, to observation of weather changes in the outdoors, the home surroundings, all of which created a trail of linkages that led back to the studio where this collective portfolio of mind images were thereafter retrofitted, so to speak, into artistic adaptations. The final outcome, on view at this showing, is thus spliced with techniques, such as angles of placement, autobiographical inputs, the glories of inclemency as observed in weather fluctuations, or even the lingering memory of a whiff of conversation! Hence the visual cohesion before viewers of these clinging memories have been collated around an art-narrated offering by the artist with herself, Seema’s fascination for experimentation with her material picks, and the exploitation of the tremendous potential of geometrical machinations.
The exhibition is an eye opener not because it makes its ideations loud and clear, but because it subsumes the charm of black and white into a new angle of contrasts. Whether they are born of her keen observation of the outdoors, or contextualized with the workings of her inner vibrations, the final product is a visual delight of soul-searching tranquillity.