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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
  
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NEW digital arcvhival prints - view 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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