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Artist Exhibitions:
Year 2002
February - Agora Gallery,
SOHO, New York
Upcoming Exhibitions-
Year 2003
July - New Century Artists,
Inc.
530 West 25th Street,
Suite 406
(Between 10th and 11th
Avenues)
Chelsea, New York,NY
10001...
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Artist Reviews:
The bright exuberance of
Shefali Ajmera's paintings and
sculpture is matched by the
joy of her titles. Ajmera's
use of all media and varying
styles makes her body of work
complex, defying easy
compartmentalization. One
painting uses the spectrum of
color, each band filled with
symbols, to please ...
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Collections:
Hansons, Norfolk, Virginia,
USA
Goldsteins, Smithtown, New
York, USA
Katarias, Indore, M.P., India
Badjatyas, Ajmer, Rajasthan,
India...
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Artist Statement for Shefali Ajmera
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My passion for beauty and life is the major source of inspiration in my Artwork. I feel that purer the heart, better is the expression. I definitely believe in the phrase 'A thing of beauty is the joy forever'. Therefore nature in all forms; landscapes, seascapes, beautiful flowers, animals, birds, people enchant me and I find challenges in expressing these beautiful feelings through my art. I have tried to express the beauty of nature from its huge canvas of life into three-dimensional artwork. I also love doing fine work that many times resembles embroidery or looks like carved work on wood or a wall from ancient and medieval forts and palaces of India. This requires a lot of attention and detail just like a newborn baby who deserves the utmost care and attention. It again makes me feel that I am contributing to the continuous cycle of life and nature, supported by love and care.
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape,……"
- Pablo Picasso
Having said that Picasso defined the complete aura of life as canvas - the physical life. To it later was added the other world - the world of dreams. Women dream and through their dream create an expression of strength, of continuity and of promise to this world. We wait for our prince as Sleeping Beauty in our fairy tale castle of life. We dream of us as birds in nests, taking care of new life that will hatch very soon. We dream of a blooming red rose garden over our gray bedroom walls; the view of Fall from our bedrooms with the man we are in love; of a full moon night on a quiet mountain with our love, in awe of the beauty of the moon and the way it has covered earth with a silver drape. We view the silver lining of clouds from our dark caves. We see the palms swinging on a beautiful sunny day on the beaches. We also see the dark mountains and darker palms from our boats; yet remain strong as on the boat we are with the people we love and care about. I see myself as a women protecting her fields from birds on a summer morning in a village in India and I also see myself as a women inside a beautiful closed window trying to reach out to the world. Women and beauty have been the prime source of continuity in the history of mankind. All I have done is that I have tried to capture those dreams into my paintings and would continue to do so.
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