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Artist Statement:
The art of Suhas Tavkar shows
a unique relationship between
the human form and the human
touch that created it.
Ever since I could remember,
as a child growing up in
India, I was always fascinated
with our universe, thinking of
it as God's created largest
art gallery with display of
all different size planets and
stars. We see this God's
exhibit during the day with
the sunlight and at night with
the moonlight. So far, our
living planet is one of
nature's greatest art pieces.
Our oceans are God's created
largest and mysterious
aquariums. I think every
living creature on earth is an
artist and also a wonderful
piece of art by itself.
With that fascination towards
nature and art, I strived to
create something as unique as
the world around us.
Suhas Tavkar was born in 1942
and raised in Mumbai, (Bombay)
India. He was taught the art
of fingernail embossing as a
child, at the age of 4 by his
father Anant who in turn,
learned it from his father. As
a teenager, Suhas would
entertain his friends by
embossing their names in
calligraphy in both Marathi
(his native language), and in
English. ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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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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Reviews for Suhas Tavkar:
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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 seriously. Sure they come in handy for scratching an itch, scraping little stains out of cloths and untangling knots in shoelaces. But we don't pay them much attention except for an occasional cleaning, filing and polishing. Not for Suhas Tavkar. He is a graphic artist with a heavy investment in his fingernails, especially those of his right thumb, forefinger and middle finger. It is with those precise tools that he produced intricate embossed designs.
Calligraphy Book Now by Margaret Shepherd: This raised letter was made by a unique twentieth century expert, who hand embosses intricate letters and designs with a specially sharpened fingernail.
HinduismToday Magazine, Hawaii. By Lavina Melwani, New York.
If Ganesha is everywhere even in a grain of rice, He is surely in the tip of the fingernail especially Suhas Tavkar's Fingernai. How else to explain the magic that this New York based artist can create with his bare hands? Take away his paints, paintbrushes and pencils, and he can still give you exquisite art. For many years he has been creating elaborate Lord Shiva, Ganeshas, Hanumanans, Ballerinas and Gracian Sculptures. All he requires is a piece of paper, a keen eye and his low-tech but highly skillful fingernails.
Articles published on Suhas Tavkar in NY Journal Japan in 1984, India Abroad, News India, Little India,
Queens Tribune, Newspaper.
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