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Artist: Sudip Roy ( India, 1961 - present ) - (Visit Roy's Portfolio at absolutearts.com)
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Genres: Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary Asian Art
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Biography: Sudip Roy is a graduate from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata. He has been a recipient of several awards including a Gold Medal from the Sahitya Parishad, Calcutta in 1979 and an award from AIFACS, Delhi in 1991. He has presented his work as a solo artist in several cities across India and has also been a participant at group exhibitions in India as well as abroad.
Sudip works in oils as well as watercolours. Sudip Roy's strength lies in his realistic rendering of everyday things in life. He takes inspiration from the people and objects that he sees around him. His work is a celebration of everyday life, showcasing ordinary things that one would normally overlook as routine and unimportant. His control of shade and light gives a wonderful depth to his work making it seem extremely real.
It is the play of light - in congested concrete landscapes, dark, gloom filled interiors and smoky, festive nights that fascinates Sudip Roy. This Calcutta based artist, has been exploring watercolor - one of the mainstays of this part of India -for quite some time now.
However unlike the pale, facile washes of colour - enlivened drawings of the old Bengal School, Roy's is the new generation water colour - complex and multilayered, rich in both texture and colour.
His forte is genre - be it the romantic ruins of old havelis with their crumbling jaliwork windows, cobwebby, cusped arches and flagstoned floors or vignettes of small town life with its acompanying hopes and aspirations. This could crystallize in the form of a young boy, eagerly awaiting the festival of colours, gazing at piles of gulal and water sprinkers, guns and balloons - or retired babulok, sifting under the shade of indigenous sun umbrellas, whiling away the heat of the afternoon amongst like-minded contemporaries.
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Exhibition History: AWARDS
1979 Gold Medal from Sahitya Parishad, Calcutta
1981 Govt. College of Arts & Crafts
1982 Gold Medal in All India Fine Art Exhibition of Fine Arts, Calcutta.
1982 Govt. College of Arts & Crafts
1984 Indian Society of Oriental Art
1985 Indian Society of Oriental Art
1986 Indian Society of Oriental Art
1991 AIFACS, Delhi
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1982 Birla Academy of Art & Culture
1983 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1984 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1989 BITM, Calcutta.
1991 Organised by CAG, Calcutta
1991 Organised by the Union of the Artists of Uzbekistan, USSR
1992 Organised by Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi
1993 Organised by GALLERIE 88, Calcutta
1997 Organised by Jam Art Gallery, Japan.
ONE-MAN SHOW
1986 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1989 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, organised by ITC
1991 Jehangir Art Gallery
1991 Academy of Fine Arts, organised by CAG
1993 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1993 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta
1994 Sridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi
1995 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1996 Art Today, New Delhi (Two Man Show)
1996 Jehangiri Art Gallery, Bombay
1997 Gallery Renaissance, Bangalore.
1998 Art Today, New Delhi
1999 Gallery Aurodhan, Pondicherry.
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