Artist name: Ashok Bhowmick

Artwork: Acrylic,pen & ink on paper

Dimension: 24 inch (H) X 18 inch (W)

About the Artist: Ashok Bhowmick, a senior renowned artist from India is also known as a “Master of Cross-hatching”. Ashok is a multitalented individual and practising artist for more than four decades. Apart from being an exceptionally good painter, he is also an experimental sculptor and a profound thinker and writer.

Be it paper or canvas, small or large, Ashok fills the spaces with his unique cross-hatching rendered with pen and ink. He creates darker spaces with a dense mesh of lines while lighter areas are achieved through controlled arrangements of lines. It is indeed a matter of utmost dedication that has made his paintings so exclusive that it has become his inimitable signature.

Artist Education: Graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft with a diploma in Fine Art, Calcutta 1975

Artist Solo Exhibitions:

• 2008 ‘Alchemy of Enigma’, Tamarind Art, New York
• 2005 ‘Street child and other Paintings’, Hamail Art Galleries, Lahore, Pakistan
• 2004 ‘Warli and other Paintings’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2004 ‘Selected Works’, Kumar Gallery, Delhi
• 2001 ‘Recent Works’, Katayun Gallery, Kolkata
• 1999 ‘Works On Paper’, Admit One Art Gallery, New York
• 1997 ‘Manushi and other Paintings’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1996 ‘My City, My Childhood’, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• 1994 ‘Undulations’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1993 ‘Ganesha’, Artists’ Centre, Mumbai
• 1991 ‘Recent paintings’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1983 ‘Amidst the darkness’, Allahabad University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
• 1980 Sun and the Beggar, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• 1980 Sun and the Beggar, Nehru Hall, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
• 1974 Ashok – 74, Indian Medical Hall, Kanpur

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