Saffonart Charity Auction

Probir Gupta

Tukral & Tagra

Mithu Sen

Saffronart is hosting a charity art auction on Nov 11/12 thats being organised to help people affected by the recent floods in north India. The husband-wife duo Subodh Gupta & Bharti Kher have rallied 31 leading Indian artists to donate works. Saffronart will host the auction on its online platform on Nov 11th and 12th. All proceeds from the event will be given away to NGOs involved in flood relief.

For those of you who have been contemplating acquiring your own art collection, now would be a great time to start. More here.

Shirley Bhatnagar

stoneware, slab forms, copper wire earthenware glazes screen, size:8 feet by 3 feet

Some incredible ceramic sculptures and installation by New York based artist Shirley Bhatnagar. Shirley is originally from Delhi and has a B.A in Design from NID, Ahmadabad. More from her portfolio here.

Lakshmi Prabhala

Some intimidating stuff off the streets of India , captured by the incredibly talented Lakshmi Prabhala . More at her flickr stream here.

desmond lazaro

"Desmond Lazaro's work straddles both worlds: the traditional pichhvai painter's and the contemporary studio artist's. The pichhvai tradition expects the art to be narrative, or to fulfil a devotional purpose. The modernist painter in Lazaro, however, is programmed to emphasise the individual, 'secular' image. In keeping the two worlds separate, and combining the stereotypes of both, Lazaro drives us to create a different point of view from which to appreciate his work. "

These paintings made me nostalgic for Pondicherry. Images and text from here.

Srila Mookherjee

Srila Mookherjee has the distinction of being India's first woman glass-blower, and her amazing repertoire is testimony to her passion for the medium and the art form. Srila trained in ceramics from NID, Ahmedabad and lives and works in Kolkata.

Shailesh Khandeparkar

Shailesh Khandeparkar had sent in some of his work and I thought they were quite interesting in that he uses a lot of traditional folk arts in a very unconventional medium and a commercial format. He works for O&M , Mumbai. Check out his work for WWF here.

Fawad Khan

Fawad Khan, Pakistani-American artist, debuted his solo show Fast Traveling Passenger, earlier this year. Khan’s exploding vehicles are painstakingly rendered central figures in his work. Imagined as war machines, they invoke the stories of their creation and lifespan, asking viewers to consider what has transpired in creating this scene of destruction.

Born on a Libyan military base where his father was a major in the Pakistani Army Medical Corp, Khan found himself to be fascinated with images from the oppressive and aggressively militaristic cultures of his past. 'Certainly media-saturation of the current war has contributed to my obsession' , says the artist. More here.