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Artist Statement:
Since my childhood I was
always thinking that our
universe is the God's largest
art Gallery with display of
big and small moving planets.
To see this exhibit during the
day the God has created
Sunlight and at night God has
created Moonlight. So far our
living planet earth is one of
the nature's greatest and the
best art piece, (until we
discover another living planet
like earth). Our earth's
oceans are God's created
largest and mysterious
aquariums in the living world
where you see real natural
artistic creations in the
light or in the dark deep blue
sea.
I was born in 1942 and raised
in Mumbai (Bombay), India, and
I was exposed to the art of
fingernail embossing as a
child but started doing
fingernail embossing at the
age of four. I have learned
this unusual and rare
fingernail relief art on paper
from my late architect father
Anant who in turn, learned it
from his father and mother as
a child (even today I can
trace my family names from
1562, means Nakhachitra art
has been practiced by my
family before that time for
generations). Today I can
produce the most intricate and
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Graphic Design USA magazine,
New York: Suhas Tavkar is a
graphic artist who uses his
fingernails as tools to
produce intricate embossed
designs pressing into the
paper to the appropriate depth
and dimensions.
U&LC magazine, New York: by
Marion Muller
Most of us don't take our
fingernails too ...
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Collections:
Mary Morris,
Roosevelt Island, New York,
USA
Mr. Simon Alicea,
New York, New York,
USA
Mr. Shantaram,
Washington DC,
USA...
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Commissions:
Mr. Shantaram
Special Landscape design
before he left Bombay
for USA in 1975.
Mary Morris
New York,
Portrait of her Grand Child
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Exhibitions for Suhas Tavkar:
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Exhibitions include: Queens Main Public Library, New York City Ballet Gallery, Fingernail demonstration at Kate's Paperie in Soho and Indian show in Natural History Museum.
The New York Public Library, Donnell Library Center 20 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. and
gave live fingernail embossing demonstration IAAC's Erasing Borders 2008 group exhibition at Tabla Rasa Gallery March 12 to march 27,2008, Brooklyn, NY. and also in April 3-26th at The Guild Gallery, Manhattan, NY. And on March 22, 2008 Suhas gave a slide presentation about his artwork, at the Queens Museum of Arts. Also on April 1, Suhas was on ITV’s live show, being interviewed by reporter Ambalika, with two other artists who were participating in the IAAC’s Erasing Borders 2008 group shows in New York. Also from May 11-June 11 his work was in the Brownson Art Gallery, in Westchester, NY. Presently Suhas’ work is showing at the Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York in the Erasing Borders 2008 show until Sept. 5, 2008. From Oct 19 to Nov. 19, 2008, his work will be on exhibit once again, at the Queens Museum in the same Erasing Borders 2008 show.
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