JAYSHREE CHAKRAVARTY (B-1956) Jayshree Chakravarty was born in Tripura. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan in 1978 and her Post-Diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda, in 1980. She has had several solo exhibitions in India and internationally, including the ones at icon Gallery, London in 2009; Bodhi Art Gallery, New York in 2007; Galerie 88, Kolkata in 2006; Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata in 2006 and 1999; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2000; Ecole d''Art, Aix-en-Provence in 1995; and the Drawing Center, New York in 1998. Some of the group shows that her works have been featured in include. "Indian Art III/III; Here and Now, Young Voices from India", Grosvenor Vadehra, London, 2007; New Narratives:Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, 2007; Paths of Progression, and Bodhi Art and Saffronart, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore and New York 2005. Chkravarty was the winner of the Canadian Grant in 1982 and also the II Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award in Bhopal in 1988. The artist lives and works in Kolkata. "The entanglements of lines, ground textures and blots in Jayshree Chakravarty's painting bring the actual to the threshold of abstraction and let the abstract exude properties of the real. Charting elusive yet attention demanding maps of human memory, she layers and enmeshes de-concretised vectors of pathways, plans, encephalographic records and scribbling of workds together with barely recognizable residues of figures and buildings, traceries of vegetation, rays of light, waves of air and mood surface and blend to turn into nealy concrete impressions on the mind that nevertheless ever away if asking to be defined" (Marta Jakimowicz, Towards Abstraction, Bodhi Art and Threshold Art Galolery exhibition catalogue, New Delhi 2005, not paginated.