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Senior
Fellowship Report
by
Vasundhara
Tewari.
(1.8.1997
to 1.2.1998)
EXHIBITIONS:
Women
Artist - celebration of Independence - Mills College Art Gallery - Berkely
& 'A Galleries, New York.
FIFTY
YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE- NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
NEW
DELHI - Organized by VADEHRA ART GALLERY AND NGMA NEW
DELHI
accompanied by a book by the same name.
'COLOURS OF INDEPENDENCE'- Orgainsed by CIMA and National Gallery of Moden Art at NGMA New Delhi.
MAJOR TRENDS IN INDIAN ART, CURATED BY PALANNIAPPAN FOR LALIT KALA AKADEMI, NEW DELHI accompanied by a book by the same name.
Traveled to USA for symposium on WOMEN ARTISTS OF INDIA and the exhibition ' A CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE ' at Mills College Berkeley.
Traveled
to Iran to attend workshop and seminar on women artists
of Asia in Tehran. Exhibited at Tehran Museum, workshop
organised by UNESCO.
During
this period I started introducing elements of women's craft
into my work I started painting lace which has long been
associated with women and femininity. In my work the lace formed
a frame within which the figure of the woman dominated. I was inspired
by the images of the Godess Shakti. The fine and the strong
- the outer and inner came together. The work was very
painstaking and intricate- relating to the composition
of miniature painting but using elements from my own
work and blown up in scale- the paintings
being large- 4' x 6' . The inclusion of lace in the backgrounds
also harked back to the intricate "jali-work" of havelis of Rajsthan and
Gujrat.
