Dhruvi Acharya

Dhruvi Acharya is an Indian artist, known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings, often accented with dark humour. Her work has been exhibited in international museums and galleries since 1998, when her MFA thesis exhibition was also her first gallery solo show. Acharya began painting her memories of home soon after arriving in the United States from Mumbai, India, in 1995. She spent a decade living in the US, along with her late husband, filmmaker Manish Acharya (1967-2010). Mother of two teenaged boys, Acharya currently lives and works in Mumbai.

In a piece about her October-November 2016 solo show "after the fall" at Chemould Prescott Road Gallery in Bombay, which reviewer Anindita Ghose viewed as marking "a powerful return" for the artist, Vogue India wrote that the "visual detailing in Acharya’s work lures viewers to pause and reflect on their own experiences. This is not just her struggle. It forces you to confront your own."[1] Reviewing the same show for India's most respected broadsheet, The Hindu, Phalguni Desai wrote that "After the Fall is exquisite, personal and unabashed in its grief and in its strength."[2]

In Acharya's lusciously painted world, human forms morph to match their mental state, comic book-inspired empty thought and speech bubbles convey ineffable emotions, and memory drawings fade in and out of layers of paint: merging the past, the present and imagined futures. Employing subtle, dark and wry humour, Acharya's work magnifies the psychological and emotional aspects of an urban woman’s life in a world teeming with discord, violence and pollution. Although the genesis of the work is often personal, Acharya's finished paintings reflect on the universality of the human emotions and experiences.

Education

Dhruvi Acharya received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Degree from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA in 1998. She completed her Post Baccalaureate in 1996 from the same college, having earlier completed her undergraduate studies in Applied Arts from the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai. While at Sophia, she was awarded the Gold Medal after her fourth year, despite this normally being an honour reserved for fifth-year students.

Awards

Acharya was recipient of the FICCI Young Woman Achievers award in 2013, the Aditya Birla Kala Kiran Puruskar in 2008, and in 2005 was featured on the cover of India Today as part of "The 50 (under 35) on the Fast Track." She was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2006.

Career

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References

  1. ↑ "Meet Dhruvi Acharya and her tribe of thinking women". http://www.vogue.in/. 14 October 2016. External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ "Fall, rise, repeat". http://www.thehindu.com/. 8 November 2016. External link in |work= (help)

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  1. ↑ "It's Not Dry Yet". The New York Times. 28 March 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/25/arts/20100328-painting-slideshow_4.html?_r=0
  3. ↑ "10 young Indian artists to watch". ted.com.
  4. ↑ "Young guns who represent the changing face of India". intoday.in.
  5. ↑ Christie’s. "Dhruvi Acharya - Christie's". christies.com.
  6. ↑ "Dhruvi Acharya". saffronart.com.
  7. ↑ "Take risks & trust your intuition: Dhruvi Acharya - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dnaindia.com. 20 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine". tehelka.com.
  9. ↑ "GASP: Dhruvi Acharya". aaa-a.org. 31 March 2010.
  10. ↑ "Dhruvi Acharya". artslant.com.
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