ANIKETA S DESHPANDE

Qualification: Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2005, from Govt School of Arts, Aurangabad (MS)

She has held her solo show ‘Voyage’ at The Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai in 2010.

Awards: 2005 Lokmanya Tilak Oak Award, Pune, Chitari Academy of fine Arts, Pune, & SCZCC, Nagpur. 2003 – 05 Annual Art Exhibition, Aurangabad. 2004 Dhule Kala Pratishthan

Group Shows: 2005 Monsoon Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai & Roopankar Art Gallery, Bhopal 2006 Abstract Expression, Bodhi Art, Delhi 2005 Waves Art Gallery, Pune 2008 Point & Line to Plane VI, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai & Le Royal Meridien, Mumbai

PARTICIPATED 2000 Painting Camp organized by Unicef 2008 Printmaking workshop, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal 2005 Camlin Art Foundation, Mumbai, M.P.Tourism, Bhopal, Lokmanya Tilak Oak,Pune & Chitari Academy, Pune 2000-05 College Annual Art Exhibition, Aurangabad 2004 Dhule Kala Pratishan. The artist lives and works in Baroda.

ABOUT HER WORK

Aniketa Deshpande’s recent paintings largely negotiate with space and void, where she creates paintings distinguished by architectonic forms assembled yet scattered, often perceptibly aligned and re-aligned, overlaid with glazes of luminescent tonalities of Mauves and Greys. The composition epitomizes her incessant struggle to poise structural elements, proportions, spatial illusions that dissolute in light and space with subtle toned down hues. Her longing for minimizing things, which she considers otherwise complex and sublimal, is apparently evident in her small scale works done in acrylic on paper and on canvas. The whole idea is simply to get all the elements synchronized through clever use of color, form, space, line, composition etc, and also to evolve a sort of abstraction characterized by a geometric division of space along with sensuously worked surfaces.

She escapes from the convolutions of reality and deliberately creates vast spaces reducing and mutilating the enormous gigantic forms to the tiny secluded outlets and no hint of life is suggested amidst toy like buildings that gradually is inundated into the white surface. By doing so, Aniketa discovers unanimous beauty of the ‘real’ and the ‘unknown’ allied with nature and the realm of ethereal delusion. Perhaps, a kind of vexation with rising population and filth in representing mundane life can be noticed as everything is absent and rejected except the celebration of perfect design. Aniketa’s voyage to a sort of ‘utopian’ world is her endless fantasy, dreaming and aiming to reach the heights of success, where she aspires to attain absolute serenity and harmony.