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POURAN BORDERS
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BÉATRICE BUREL
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Teetering industrial structures ominous inevitable aging decay dominate much of Borders’ work. Her cityscapes and skylines bemoan the decline and disrepair of
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factories and refineries past their prime beneath colorfully damaged clouds. Borders wrestles with the insecure implications of the scenes she renders, meditating on American industrialism and its future while marveling at the monuments and wires it leaves in its wake. The color choices and mixed media on Borders’ canvases, cut striking auras and unwaveringly fateful silhouettes into her deep, expansive compositions. Each leaning set of power lines indicates a looming inevitability, but behind them are swirling chaotic patterns of clouds that Borders juxtaposes against her subjects in chaotically harmonious unions.Borders work has been sold across the world and found homes in collections throughout the United States and Europe. She brings sensibilities from her extensive background in Persian art learned in her native Iran together with distinctly Western currents of topicality and style. Website: www.pouran.com
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GANGA KADAKIA
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éatrice Burel’s paintings are a study of both complicated geometry and vast, uncharted terrain. The daughter of a geometer and topographer, much of her work can be likened to ridged maps, comprised of carefully delineated mountains, streams and other natural wonders. A deeper study of her work’s phenomenal detail permits a decadent descent into the extraordinary cavern-like images in her paintings where the contrast of rugged and smooth contours attained by a fusion of media and substances create a beautiful, alternate reality.
Béatrice Burel excels in experimenting with a variety of media. She works on both paper and canvas, and paints with acrylic, watercolor, gouache and other substances, creating magnificent texture and images shrouded in mystery. Burel’s captivating choices of colors communicate a vast range of emotions, from optimism to debilitating despair, as she is often motivated to transcribe the intensity of her own emotions on her canvas. When plagued by feelings of loneliness, Béatrice Burel takes shelter in the underground world that she creates in her paintings where alchemy and imagination collide.
Béatrice Burel received her Bachelor and a Master of Plastic Arts from the Arts Faculty of Amiens in Picardy. She currently lives and works in France where she fully dedicates herself to her two passions, design and artistic expression.
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The emotive experimentation energized by the color choices and icons wrapped within each of Ganga Kadakia’s works adorns a rich voice from the stage of India’s art world. Kadakia commands masterfully chosen, Matissean color schemes that re-contextualize images from pop and ancient cultures with
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Warholian sensibilities. Her keen senses of both the ironic and culturally resonant aesthetics of her subjects build stereophonic statements about otherwise simple elements that become quizzical and often challenge the cultural authority they evoke. Often mixing drastically varied brush strokes and media, Kadakia carries boldly executed concepts into her work that entice the imagination and present dialectical breakdowns of meaning with both space and hue.
Kadakia’s paintings and photography have been featured in major exhibits around Mumbai and sold internationally, attracting attention from publications such as Time Magazine, India Today and the Bombay Times, who commissioned Kadakia for artwork connected with the paper’s 10th anniversary.
Website: www.gangakadakia.com
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