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Manhattan Arts Gallery
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Light # 8
mixed media on wood panel,
16" x 28"
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Light # 1
mixed media on wood panel,
36" x 48"
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Light # 19
mixed media on wood panel,
16" x 28" |
Light # 13
mixed media on wood panel,
24" x 24" |
Light # 5
mixed media on wood panel,
36" x 48"
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Light # 15
all mixed media on wood panel,
24" x 24"
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Artist Profile
Satish is a painter, printmaker and sculptor. His current paintings are executed in the distinctive mixed media style that he first began exploring in the early 1970s; they feature textured surfaces with a three-dimensional appearance. His distinctly personal vision reached full fruition with his Light Series of 1981, in which he first fully addressed the abstract elements of light, color and texture. These pieces were first seen at his 1981 solo exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Satish’s early large-scale canvases, which sent the viewer flying outward into the vastness of the cosmos, have gradually given way to a more intimate realization of the natural world. Worked on “canvases” of wood, his paintings now give the viewer the illusion of gazing outward through a window at a world in which the natural elements have been stripped bare. Similar explorations have probed the natural landscape in his Sunflower series, his abstract landscapes of the American southwest, and his Reflections paintings.
Stone and steel sculpture became important aspects of Satish's oeuvre in the mid-1980s. His steel pieces fall into two categories, found object assemblage and "drawings on steel." His alabaster and marble sculptures range from table-sized pieces to monumental scale installation works.
Satish is a 1968 graduate of the New Delhi College of Art. He has taught at Riverdale Country School since 1974, while simultaneously maintaining an extensive exhibition career since his arrival in New York in 1969. He is known professionally by his first name.
Praise for Satish
"At his best, Satish’s complicated forms are beguiling of and by themselves. An examination of these works reveals an often subtle and direct forceful use of textures, which become not only the background of a work but the surface as well.….. The use of color in these works is yet another interesting consideration. In Satish’s more literal landscape paintings, the color he utilizes is increasingly atmospheric. The muffled depths of his under-painting, coupled with the sunlit colors dancing on the surface, enables Satish to create these layered, carefully nuanced works of art….. Satish’s work may be characterized by a vital pulsating background at play against a predominant simplified shape. This description fits most of these works, but it is what the artist does with this background and how it plays off the predominant shape that gives each work its unique direction and transformation."
Richard Madigan, Former Director, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
"Satish virtuosity as sculptor has always gone hand-in-hand with his affinity for flat art, in which he works with equal facility and ingenuity as painter and printmaker. In this branch of his oeuvre, his imagery flows from his keen study of the nature of light in relationship to organic forms. Whether creating visionary landscapes or purely abstract compositions, Satish continually explores the manifold effects of light as it plays upon a subject or emerges from it….The result is less a depiction of recognizable scenery than the visual suggestion of the landscape’s essential spirit."
Barrymore L. Scherer, Contributing Editor, Art & Auction Magazine
"The most recent sculptures are especially reminiscent of Satish’s paintings of several years ago. The facets and cleavages produced by welding and burning are akin to the crevasses and cracks in the artist’s rocklike paintings….Once again, the artist has made original and unself-conscious use of a rich mixture of ideas and techniques and influences."
Cynthia Nadelman, Contributing Editor, ARTnews
"Pure and clean, Satish employs a refreshing use of color, applied with a unique gift of craftsmanship. The forms and textures embody a positive enlightenment of action and a sense of slowly revealing something exciting about to happen." William Waite, Director, Chautauqua Art Association
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