Shelly Jyoti
 
Artist Statement

I enjoy the exploration of art through time, space and solitude of my working. Different mediums of art fascinate me and then its transformation to my vision is a personal creative challenge.
My earliest memories are of sketching on my table, chair, newspapers, school copies, school dress, murals on the walls of my room with crayon and anywhere and any surface. Now, I make marks on canvas, paper and any exciting surface.
The process of working on a canvas is euphoric in terms of is layering, superimposing, texturing, lacering, using brushes, knives blades spatulas, blades, rollers and any object that can give me textures. I clothe my paintings with vibrant colors, textures and forms that are subconsciously a part of my creative experience over the years.
To me as an artist, painting is the contemplative act that distils an essence about ones' total reality. The act of painting becomes a lyrical dance efflorescing a painting as an evolution of a meditative and tactile experience with the color and materiality of the paints. My works are not only metaphors or representations of my real world. Infact they are my real world... a world in which non materiality and materiality, both in the mind of a designer and an artist exists.
I have been influenced by the Art movements and schools such as Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art, Kinetic Art, Color-field Painting as well as cubism particularly originating in the last century. I have reinterpreted these influences in my abstract style of works to communicate in my own visual language.
This body of work titled “labyrinth:a space for abstraction and muses ” can be divided in two. The first half examines the radiant unbound energy and dynamic use of space through abstraction and the second half is corresponding to the first half by creating muses - ‘ the faces’. The language of abstraction and faces is in relation to the human life and conditions .Since, symbolically life which is intertwined, just like abstraction and emotions of mankind – eventually directing you to wider meaning of ‘knowing thyself’ and spirituality.

So, it is the Abstraction and philosophy which provide the fundamental basis for my work. I find the quality of the abstraction in a tailor’s needle, in a droplet of water, in nature and any visual. Abstraction suggests the poetic. It is a way of presenting without representing; for not all painting is representation and not all art is a product of conceptualism alone.
This body of work is in response to the splash of colors, the forms the shapes that run across my eyes each time I shut them. The dots and dots and the chaining of dot are a part of my abstraction that I was etching to put them on canvas for many years.
Hence came this collection called ‘labyrinth of abstraction and muses’.
As a designer, I have created several spring- summer- winter collections and each time had to innovative and different from before. This collection of my paintings has many different formats and exploring newer forms to make the canvasses and paper look vibrant and meaningful.
 
This my fourth solo show in bay area and it’s a pleasure to share my art with art lovers and art buyers.i look forward to seeing you again on Saturday August 25 , 2007 between 10am – 8pm.