Exhibition Lookbook | Shivani Dugar

SHIVANI DUGAR SOLO EXHIBITION

T I M E I M AG I N E D B ALTIMORE October 27 - November 2, 2017 C H EVY C HASE November 4 - 7, 2017 H AVER FORD November 11 - 18, 2017

Right: Winte

F O R I N Q U I R I E S & M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N :

Oil on Canvas

Renaissance Fine Arts: Baltimore, MD | 410.484.8900 Merritt Gallery: Chevy Chase, MD | 301.564.4447 Merritt Gallery: Haverford, PA | 610.645.9945

Front Cov Oil on Canvas

ers At The Lodge • 60 x 48 inches

ver: The Sailboats • 48 x 48 inches

Alive In The Sky Oil on Canvas • 66 x 42 inches

Shivani Dugar: Time Imagined Nature, in its incredible vastness and challenging beauty mystifies the greatest of minds.

In her series, Time Imagined, Shivani Dugar reveals her personal discourse with the natural world that surrounds her. Through the interplay of light, color, time and emotion, her paintings bear witness to the dynamic, inspirational energy of nature. The artist invites viewers on a visual journey to explore the spaces she has created; magical, elusive moments that foster reflection on memories past and futures envisioned.

Shivani’s abstractions exhibit a multitude of textures found in nature; gestural marks some created with meticulous calculation and some purely coincidental. As Gerhard Richter proclaimed, “Chance determines our lives in important ways.” Shivani, too, turns to chance for an extra edge of creativity. She plays with gestural mark making, creating layers of lines and spaces. By interlocking and layering her marks along with the surprise element of chance, she creates a sense of movement and depth in each image, allowing the viewer to travel through the series.

This artist’s journey is one of reminiscence and of moving forward. Although her style and technique remain characteristic, in Time Imagined, the artist has embraced a new palette of colors. Brilliant reds, glowing yellow golds, arresting blues, emerald greens and luminous transparent layers of orange evoke a sense of optimism. Claude Monet, the master who has influenced Shivani since she started painting, famously expressed, “Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment.” In Time Imagined, viewers can see a shift towards a more hopeful, revelatory color scheme being explored by the artist.

Time Imagined is built on successive strata of time, experience and memory. Shivani’s works’ abstract language inspires viewers to explore the power of nature on their human consciousness and spirituality. Each painting captures an ephemeral moment in nature and conveys the artist’s imaginative interpretation of this distinct time. Her objective for viewers is for them to experience the light as it enlivens the landscape, allowing them to embrace each mystical moment with hopeful wonderment.

Enjoy this select group of works from Shivani Dugar’s solo exhibition. We invite you to experience the entire collection in person at the gallery.

Merritt Miller & Rachel Rubin

After The Snow Oil on Canvas • 72 x 84 inches

“In the painting, A Dance in the Sky, Dugar exhibits a celebration of pinks, magentas with yellows set against a vivid sky blue....”

A Dance In The Sky Oil on Canvas • 65 x 65 inches

Time In The Wild Oil on Canvas • 60 x 84 inches

August Hues Oil on Canvas • 60 x 84 inches

“The Little Brave was inspired by the artist’s travels to the Rocky Mountains. Abound with icy blues and whites, Dugar brings a cool, spirited sense of exhilaration against darker hues that challenge the mind...”

The Little Brave Oil on Canvas • 59 x 83 inches

Sometime In The Oil on Canvas •

e City 60 x 48 inches

Wherever You Are Oil on Canvas • 54 x 54 inches

The Artist Shivani Dugar was born in Calcutta in 1979, and grew up in Bangalore, India. After completing her degree in finance at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. she decided to pursue her lifelong passion and enrolled at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York for a Masters in Fine Art Degree. She has had successful solo shows in New York, India and China and has participated in group shows around the world.

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N P L E A S E C O N TA C T T H E G A L L E R Y Merritt Gallery | Chevy Chase, MD | 301.564.4447 Merritt Gallery | Haverford, PA | 610.645.9945 Renaissance Fine Arts | Baltimore, MD | 410.484.8900