CURRENT SHOWS:
GROUP SHOW:
Bring Me a Lion: An exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Hunt Gllery, Webster University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
www.websterhuntgallery.blogspot.com
RECENT REVIEWS:
The New York Times, Arts Section, "Painting Still Lively in the 21st Century", Roberta Smith, 26 March, 2010
The Personal Is Political Is Painterly: Many of these categories are less a way to fix artists' locations than to indicate some undercurrents of post-abstract figuration and its widening source material. Dhruvi Acharya's "Bubble Bath" updates Rajput painting with riffs from cartooning, a certain darkness of mind and a focus on women (sometimes shown, as here, engaged in a stereotypical Western ritual); the bath looks anything but bubble and matches a thought balloon that seems to be sweating blood.
The New York Times, "Its Not Dry Yet", Roberta Smith, 26 March 2010
Painting may be in a similar place right now, formented mostly, but not always, by young painters who have emerged in the last decade. They feel freer to paint what theu want than at any ime since the 1030s, or maybe even the 1890s,....
TAKE on art,"Dhruvi Acharya :laughter in the Dark: Interpreting Dhruvi Achary's art in relation to Black Humour", Issue 1 Volume 01, january - March 2010
  
Images of work in"GASP!" recent solo show at Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York (February 25 - April 2, 2010)
above: RELICS, 2010, charcoal, collage and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 48x48 inches
FEED, 2009, charcoal and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 42x42 inches
BARREN, 2010, charcoal, collage and synthetic polymer pain ton canvas, 36 x 36 inches
MAKE LOVE, 2009, collage and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 18 x 18 inches
NOT WAR, 2009, collage and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 18 x 18 inches
BUBBLE BATH, 2010, synthetic polymer paint on panel, 12 x 12 inches
RIDER, 2010, synthetic polymer paint on panel, 10 x 10 inches
REQUIM, 2010, synthetic polymer paint on panel, 6 x 6 inches
JAILBIRD, 2010, synthetic polymer paint on panel, 6 x 6 inches
   
GASP! will be on view at Kravets/Wehby, New York, until April 2, 2010
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See images of archival prints on canvas in Gallery 14.
above: MUMBAI CITY, 2009, archival digital print on canvas (diptych) Printed in two sizes: 4 x 16 feet (edition of 5) and 2 x 8 feet (ediition of 5)
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See images of recent work in Gallery 13.
above: ATTACK I, 2008, ink, graphite, collahe and watercolour on paper, 12x16 inches
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Dhruvi's last solo show "ONE LIFE ON EARTH" was on view at Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai and Nature Morte in New Delhi in fall 2008.
View works in Gallery 12.
above: AIRFARE, 5.5 x 16 feet, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 2008
above: AIR FAIR, 23 panel painting, 7.4 x 14 feet
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