Rashmi Talpade
C W O S ARTIST
Primary Medium: Drawing
Other media: Collage, Installation, Pen, Found material
Tags : Assemblage, Linear, Urban, Geometric, Lighting
Studio 1
Neighborhood : Wallingford
Email: arty (dot) rt (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://Rashmi.NeoImages.net
Artist Statement
As an artist and photographer my work reflects my surroundings in minute detail. My photographs evolve into photo-collages of dense, reconstructed landscapes which speak of history, humanity, and our place in it. The collages then metamorphose into drawings of objects creating an optical play of visual depth, challenging perspectives and fictionalized worlds.
In my new series, the monochrome of black ink has replaced the color of the photo-collages and the drawings have begun assuming a 3-D character of the actual objects, with pieces pasted on multiple layers to create tile like components of a low relief paper mosaic. Geometric forms and clean sharp lines, juxtaposed on a background of multi-layered geometric paper shapes, merge abstraction with realism to build an environment that comments upon consumerism and replenishment.
Viewers must engage closely with the work to observe details, then step back to understand how the work multiplies spatially to create a complete image.
Other media: Collage, Installation, Pen, Found material
Tags : Assemblage, Linear, Urban, Geometric, Lighting
Studio 1
Neighborhood : Wallingford
Email: arty (dot) rt (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://Rashmi.NeoImages.net
Artist Statement
As an artist and photographer my work reflects my surroundings in minute detail. My photographs evolve into photo-collages of dense, reconstructed landscapes which speak of history, humanity, and our place in it. The collages then metamorphose into drawings of objects creating an optical play of visual depth, challenging perspectives and fictionalized worlds.
In my new series, the monochrome of black ink has replaced the color of the photo-collages and the drawings have begun assuming a 3-D character of the actual objects, with pieces pasted on multiple layers to create tile like components of a low relief paper mosaic. Geometric forms and clean sharp lines, juxtaposed on a background of multi-layered geometric paper shapes, merge abstraction with realism to build an environment that comments upon consumerism and replenishment.
Viewers must engage closely with the work to observe details, then step back to understand how the work multiplies spatially to create a complete image.
Selected Works
|  Urban Decay - 2006 - Photo-Collage - 20"X20"  Textures of Bombay - 2005 - Photo Collage - 22"X26"  Traffic of Bombay - 2006 - Photo Collage - 32"X40"  The God Next Door - 2006 - Photo Collage - 32"X40"  Still Life - 2009 - Ink Drawing Collage - 35"X39""  Still Life 3 - 2007 - Pen on Paper - 14"X17"  Bird in Hand - 2009 - Paper and Pen Collage - 22"X 36"  Blocks and Folds - 2009 - Drawing and Paper Collage - 32"X 36"  Drawing in 3D_2 - 2010 - Mixed Media Installation - 3ftX4ftX1.5ft  Sculpture in wood - 2011 - Scrap Wood, found material - 3'X3'X6" [price upon request] Work in Progress |
Artist Bio
EDUCATION
1982 GDArt Fine Arts J.J.School of Art, India
1984 GDArt Ceramics J.J. School of Art, India
1984 Photographic Society Of India
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2006 Artistic Fellowship Grant, CT Commission on Culture & Tourism.
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
Fairview Capital, CT
Asian American Art Center, NY
Roopankar Museum of Modern Art, Bhopal, India
Middlesex College, CT, USA
Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay, India
Living Traditions Gallery, Bristol, CT, USA
Ministry of Oil & Resources, New Delhi. India
Rotterdam University, Holland
Grindlays International Bank, Bombay, India
SELECT INVITATIONAL SHOWS
2010 GE Financial, Danbury, CT
Fairview Capital, CT
Philagraphika Benefit, Philadelphia, PA
Cultural Connections, Stamford Old Town Hall Museum, CT
2009 Silk Road GE Headquarters, Stamford, CT2009
Real Places, Ideal Spaces, Albertus Magnus College, CT
Lost & Found CT. Commission of Culture & Tourism Art Gallery
2008 Potluck, Parachute Factory, CT
Urban Shape, Hopkins School, New Haven, CT
Curator's Choice Artspace. New Haven, CT
2007-08 Curator's Corner, Pilot Pen Players Lounge Invitational, CT
2006-09 Benefit Auction Artspace, New Haven, CT
2006 Array, Haskins Laboratory, New Haven, CT
Flatfiles (Ensemble), Artspace, CT
2005 In the Round John Slade Ely Contemporary Art Center, CT
Picasso's Women Black Rock Arts Center, IPA, CT
Collages, Haskins Laboratory, CT
2004 Butternut Ink Asian American Arts Center, NYC
Collages Art Place, Yale NH Hospital, CT
1998 Featured Artist Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1985 Faculty Chooses Student, Bajaj Art Gallery, Bombay, India.
SELECT SOLO SHOWS
2009 Collages, Norwalk Community College, CT
2005 Continuum, Paul Mellon Arts Center, CT
Cultures in Continuum, Cheshire Academy, CT
2004 Backyard to Bombay, York Square Gallery, CT
2003 Facets, Middlesex Community College, CT
1998 Routes to my Roots, Living Traditions Gallery, CT
Full Circle, Landmark Gallery, CT
1997 Untitled Living Traditions Gallery, Bristol, CT
1988 Collages, Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
1986 Drawings, Bajaj Art Gallery, Bombay, India
1983 Collages, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, India
JURIED SHOWS
2007 101 Dresses Artspace, New Haven, CT
2005-07 Cultural Passages Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven
1999-2002, 2005-07,09 New Haven Paint & Clay Club (Award, Best Collage)
2001 West Hartford Art League
1993 National Exhibition Pump House Gallery, Hartford.
1986 Professional Category State Art Exhibition, India.
Art International Greene Street Gallery, NYC
1981 Juried Show Art Society of India
VISITING ARTIST / RESIDENCIES
2008 Collage Workshop, New Britain Museum of American Art.
2001-06, 09 Arts Day, Cheshire
2000-01 Resident Artist, Young Audiences of CT
1999 2008 Project Meet The Artist, an invitational venture to bring the Art Gallery experience to regional elementary schools.
May 1983 & Feb 84 Invitational research residency to study local clay, kiln building at Shirajgao village, India, and educate local potters in technical aspects of strengthening clay bodies and glazes to create durable ceramics for their business.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007-08 Pilot Pen Invitational Show in Players Lounge, CT Tennis Center, New Haven, CT.
Dreams, Memories & Sleep, in collaboration with Yale Dept. of Psychiatry
2002 Honor Through Art, a memorial exhibition of art works by the residents of the town of Wallingford in honor of the1st anniversary of the September 11 tragedy
2001-02 Created and sold drawings, paintings and prints inspired by the September 11 tragedy to raise funds donated to American Red Cross
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2006 - 10 Member, Visual Arts Committee, Artspace, New Haven
Director, City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven CT
2004 - 10 Member, Visual Arts Advisory Group, Arts Council, New Haven.