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Sujata Bajaj 

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Balagaganapati
Acrylic Gold Leaf on Fibreglass
30 x 22 x 15 inches

Blues
Acrylic on Canvas
40 x 80 inches

Gajakarna
Acrylic Gold leaf on Canvas
34 x 30 x 19 inches

Gangasuta
Mixed media
37 x 19.5 inches

Jagadadhara
Mixed media on paper
44 x 26 inches

Reds
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 80 inches

Siddhivinayaka
Acrylic gold leaf on fiberglass
32 x 28 x 15 inches

Acrylic on canvas
39.3 x 39.3 inches

Vijayasthira
Acrylic gold leaf on fiberglass
33 x 26 x 24 inches

Yakshakinnarasevita
Mixed media on paper
44 x 26 inches

SUJATA BAJAJ

Born in 1958, Sujata Bajaj is a Paris based Indian artist. She completed her graduation in Fine Arts from the SNDT College, Pune. In 1988, on Raza’s insistence, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Ecole Nationale Superieur Des Beaux-Arts, and worked at Studio Claude Viseux. France to her was a fascinating world, one that helped her “find the balance between Indian aesthetics and modern painting.”

Sujata Bajaj has explored various materials, medium, and methods. She has worked with different art forms and mediums such as etching, wood-cut, sculpture, murals, cold ceramic, fibre-glass, metal, mixed medias, and now, acrylic.

During her early years as an artist, her paintings perpetuate, by the use of geometric and floral motifs, the traditions of India’s tribal arts, with a degree of adaptation. Between 1983-1988, there was a boldness of composition on her canvases. Figurative elements – silhouettes, faces or women’s hands, details of architecture or landscape that move towards pure abstraction. Since 1990, she has used vertical rectangular formats that tend to substitute themselves for the usual square format. Verticality, stretching upwards, soaring, incorporating mantras, venerable texts, these are all characteristics of some of Sujata’s compositions as well as of her very spirit.

Her work is a testimony to the beauty of the gesture, and the gesture alone. It alternates between order and chaos, between brutality and gentleness; it opens up slowly, pictorial layer by pictorial layer, with a quiet superimposition of subtleties that give the palette an extraordinary depth.

Her canvases emit powerful vibrations, a sort of unending tension which can be tamed only by revisiting them again and again. Her choice of abstraction is not in any way a surrender to facile temptation; rather, it is a storehouse of diverse influences: her Indian roots, her fine understanding of color and her training under some of the masters of French lyrical abstraction.

She had held her first show at the Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, Pune, in 1978. In 2016, she exhibited her sculptural works in fibreglass and etchings on her long time muse Ganpati. Ganapati holds a special place in her heart as she claims with great reverence, “To me the form of Ganapati has a distinctive individuality in my empathy and in my creative being. It is the most boundless and playful form absorbed with positivity and optimism, it gives me a feeling of confidence and buoyancy and eliminates the presence of apprehension from within.” In this series of Ganeshas, Sujata innovates; takes a risk, and sets us an authentic challenge, and at the same time adheres to tradition. The basic silhouette is the same, changing slightly, but it remains vague, as is fitting for a God, for Gods are always glimpsed in a mist or in a halo of blinding light.

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