My Art & I
All artistic endeavor of man are symbols through which one communicates the deep and abiding feelings, the emotions which are beyond ordinary speech. As the writer George Bernard Shaw says - “You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use a work of art to see your soul.” While ordinary people communicate through speech and simple action, an artist communicates through his symbol of forms & colour. My painting is an endeavor of events that lie in the subconscious mind, that are etched out on my canvas giving way to forms in a very figurative style creating a mysterious aura sometimes fairy tale like, sometimes too secretive for comprehension. My paintings are centered around a story of relationship. The tenderness of the human mind, body and soul. The meeting of human and organic forms of nature. This is the story of relationship.
-sonia Rodrigues Sabharwal
Born in Bombay (1968)
1989 : B.F.A in painting, Goa College of Art, Bombay University
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
1986-89 : State Art Exhibition, Goa
1989 : South Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur
1990 : All India Art Exhibition, Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore 1991 :
Tilak Samrat Trust, Pune
1991 : 1st Independant Art Exhibition, Goan Art Forum, Goa. 1991 : 7th
Triennale International Painters Camp & Exhibition, L.K.A., Goa.
1991 : Contemporary `91, Goan Art Forum, Goa.
1992 : Backyard Ritual, National Art Exhibition, Goan Art Forum, Goa.
1993 : Two Women Exhibition, Flying Dutchman, Goa.
1993 : Two Women Exhibition, Sarala Art Centre, Madras
1993 : Two Women Exhibition, Chitram Art Gallery, Kerala.
1994 : Three Women Exhibition, Kala Academy, Goa.
1994 : Bombay Art Society, Bombay
1995 : Two Artists Exhibition, Jahangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1995 : Solo Exhibition - Gallery Steps, New Delhi
1996 : Two Artists Exhibition - Kala Academy Goa.
1997 : Solo Exhibition - India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi
1997 : 50 years of India Independence Art Camp. Organised by ITC Hotels
Ltd., (Welcomgroup), Agra and Exhibition held at New Delhi, Maurya Sheraton.
1998 : Solo Exhibition, Gallery Geetanjali Goa.
1998 : Three Artists Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay.
2000 : Solo exhibition at Art Chamber, Calangute, Goa
2001: Two artist exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
2002: Group Show "Women of Goa" at Art Chamber, Calangute, Goa
AWARDS:
1992-93 : Research Grant in Painting - Lalit Kala Academi Delhi.
1994 : State Art Award
1996 : State Art Award
1997 : State Art Award
