Somenath Maity Interior Paintings

Somenath Maity - Structures - 40 x 40 inches (unframed size) Oil on canvas The frame is a part of the work, the work will be shipped in a crate. Style : Somenath Maity is self-professedly an artist of urban environments and cultures. Called avant-garde and unconventional for his landscapes, this artist’s favourite occupation is to find the inner beauty that exists in every big city and that most people don’t see or bother to look for, and then express it in his abstract oils on canvas. Maity builds up his paintings, all aptly titled structure, one brush stroke at a time, almost as an architect would work on a blueprint for a building. Maity’s colors and textures are strong, bringing to the forefront the life of the urban sprawls that he paints, and investing them with a force that works beyond the life of their inhabitants, keeping them ticking no matter who comes or goes, lives or dies. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1960 in Midnapore, West Bengal. Education : 1980-85 : Diploma in Fine Arts, Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Kolkata. 1979-85 : Fine Arts, College of Visual Arts, Kolkata. Solo Exhibitions : 2011 : ‘Structures’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai . 2008 : ‘Structures’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata . 2006 : ‘Structure: Cityscape’, organized by Mahua Art Gallery at Leela Galleria, Bangalore. 2004 : Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai . 2002 : Barn Gallery, Henley, UK . 2002-01 : Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Karnataka . 1999 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai . 1998 : Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata . 1989 : Tagore Art Gallery, Kolkata. Group Exhibitions : 2008 : 'Spirit of Abstraction', Mahua Art Gallery, Kolkata & 'Structure and Mystic Space', Tamarind Art, New York in collaboration with Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore . 2007 : ‘Emerging India’, organized by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi and S.A. Fine Arts, London at Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Arts, UK . 2005 : ‘Sculpture Square’, Lasalle- Sia College of Art, Singapore . 2003 : `Art Access ‘ organized by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai & Art for Chitrakala Parishath , Bangalore organized by FORHD . 2002 : East Zone Regional Exhibition, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata & All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi . 1984 : ‘Gitanjali to Pather Panchali...