Piyali Sen Dasgupta
Houston, TX
Artist's Statement:
Piyali Dasgupta depicts life by presenting woman as the central force of nature. She is the nurturer who is at the very core of our universe, not by chance but by design. This metaphoric subtlety is a constant in her work. Piyali embraces and cultivates woman’s sense of spirituality through balance and harmony. In this manner she exposes the undertones of the human experience from a woman’s perspective, allowing nature’s enigma to spring to life in her paintings.
Ms. Dasgupta uses egg-tempera on a combined surface of rice and brown paper, wood, and tile, the same ancient technique used in painting Rajput and Moghul minisatures and Jain manuscript paintings. Her understanding of these techniques and her meticulous attention to detail and design within confined or large areas, gently transitions the viewer from observer to participant in her paintings.
A fine arts graduate of the prestigious Santiniketan School in West Bengal, India, she was awarded a cultural fellowship from the Government of India and was mentored by celebrated artist and printmaker, Somnath Hore. Her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Midland, Michigan, in galleries in India and Michigan, and at the Visual Arts Alliance Juried Show, Houston, Texas. Her paintings have received Third Place and Honorable Mention in the Mid-Michigan Annual Juried show. She currently resides in Houston, Texas with her family.
