By Jeet Aulakh
Located in Surfside, FL
Born and raised in India, Canadian Contemporary artist Jeet Aulakh participates in a rich and varied cultural and social history in which notions of humanity are indivisible into secular and spiritual realms. A central theme in Indian philosophy is the ultimate release from the subservience of life and all its contingent aspects: to be detached from life by the realization of the “absolute supreme principle”, which is itself beyond definition. The goal is to achieve, through inner realization, a reintegration into this indefinable absolute realm. Aulakh ably depicts this other abstract realm through the use of floating circles of saturated colour seemingly floating in the dark to evoke cosmic cycles in which human history and individual identity is peripheral. The radiant world of the enraptured, disembodied soul is undiminished by this enveloping cosmic darkness.
His images suggest a cosmic egg from which the manifest world is born. Striving to reveal through geometric abstraction what remains incomprehensible, Aulakh, through his use of glowing circles of colour, gives form to what is formless and cohesive totality to individual consciousness. Aulakh’s celestial circles are irreducible: they are void of narrative or symbolic content. They suggest the way in which the distinctions between varying avenues to spiritual enlightenment are illusory despite separate names and forms. His is a minimalist and conceptual approach to spirituality informed by the rich history of Indian culture in which one finds countless references to cosmic consciousness. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries. He is represented by Rupert Young Toronto.
Select Past Solo Exhibits:
Arts Council Gallery, Windsor - Canada
Gibson Art Gallery, Amherstburg – Canada
Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton – Canada
Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London – UK
Taras Shevchenko Museum, Toronto – Canada
Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor – Canada
IAFA Art Gallery, Amritsar - India
Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga - Canada
Punjab Lalit Kala, Chandigarh - India
Sutlej Art Gallery, New Delhi - India
Banasar Art Gallery, Patiala - India
Select Past Group Exhibits:
Thames Art Gallery, Chatham – Canada
Icon Art Gallery, Hyderabad – India
Arts Council Gallery, Windsor – Canada
Gallery Streetsville, Mississauga – Canada
Museum London, London – Canada
Common Ground Gallery, Windsor – Canada
Grand Salon Des Arts, California – USA
Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar – India
The Gallery, Windsor – Canada
Space for New Art, Brampton – Canada
Art knows No Borders, Los Angeles – USA
World Art Expo, California – USA
Living Arts Centre, Mississauga – Canada
Art at the Castle, Toronto – Canada
Russian Art Centre, New Delhi – India
Lennox Contemporary, Toronto – Canada
University of Saskatchewan – Canada
Windsor Printmakers Gallery, Windsor – Canada
Energy Art Gallery, Toronto - Canada
Parijat Art Gallery, New Delhi – India
Praxis Art Gallery, Toronto – Canada
Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton – Canada
South Delta Art Gallery, South Delta – Canada
Laluque Atelier Gallery, Toronto – Canada
Struts Art Gallery, Sackville – Canada
Kiwanis Longhouse Gallery – Canada
Arts Council Gallery, Everett – USA
Punjab Agricultural University – India
Bibliography:
“Sounds and Meditation” – Sandu Sindile, Curator
“Painter of Inner World and Cosmos” – Keshav Malik, Art Critic
“Spiritual Contemplation and Cosmic Reality” – Seema Bhalla, Art Historian
“High Heavens of Hope” – RS Yadav, Art Critic
“Metaphysical Abstract” – Dr Avani Rao, Art Historian and Curator
“Poet and Artist in Constant Journey” – Dr Surjit Patar, Writer
“Strength of Colors” – Prof Marie Prociw
“Craving for the Unknown” – Prof NS Tasneem
“Language of Colors” – Balraj Cheema, Writer
“Mystical Abstract” – Emma Cook, Curator
“Sound of Silence” – Gurdev Chauhan, Critic and Writer
“Color Field and Spirituality” – R Sharma, Art Critic
“Mysteries and Magnetism” – Ashley Goodfellow
“Sacred Geometrics” – Radhika Chhotai
“Art of Tantra and Spirituality” – Deccan Chronicle
“Yoga Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jeet Aulakh Art