Manjari Sharma
Maa Laxmi
2011

Name: Maa Laxmi
Brand: Manjari Sharma
Price: 500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Digital C-print Signed and numbered on label, verso 10 x 8 inches (Edition of 200) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. Manjari Sharma writes: “‘Darshan’ is a Sanskrit word that means ‘vision’ or ‘view’ and is most commonly used in the context of Hindu worship. It can also be defined as an ‘apparition’ or a ‘glimpse.’ One may seek and receive the Darshan of a deity and upon sight that Darshan may invoke an immediate connection between that deity and the devotee. A Darshan can ultimately be described as an experience purposed on helping one focus and call out to his or her sense of spirituality. “‘Darshan’ is a fine art series that aims to photographically recreate nine classical images of Gods and Goddesses pivotal to mythological stories in Hinduism. My vision for this work is to have the reproductions that measure six feet tall. The final presentation of this work would resultantly be a massive print installation in a museum that closely mimics the experience of a Hindu temple, complete with incense, lamps, and invocations, accompanied by detailed texts about the mythological significance of that deity.” Manjari Sharma is an internationally published photo-based artist born and raised in Mumbai, India, and based in southern California. In addition to many private collections, Sharma’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Sharma was awarded 1st Place for The CENTER’s Curator’s Choice Award 2014, and her work was selected for an honorable mention for the Santa Fe Prize in 2012. Her photographs have been selected by Review Santa Fe and featured by the Griffin Museum and Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Rubin Museum of Art, AsiaSociety Museum, and The School of Visual Arts are a few of the places Sharma has been invited to lecture and teach. Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from S.N.D.T University, Mumbai, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Still Photography from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.

Creator:

Manjari Sharma (1979)

Creation Year:

2011

Dimensions:

Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)

Medium:

C Print

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-