Natvar Bhavsar
Natvar Bhavsar, AKSHYAA, 1992-93, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 66 x 90 in (167.64 x 228.6 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, URVASEE, 1992, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 78 x 57 in (198.12 x 144.78 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, SAMANAA, 2000, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 80 x 68 in (203.2 x 172.72 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, AHEERA, 1987, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 90 x 77 in (228.6 x 195.58 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, VASOO II, 1997, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 61 x 55 in (154.94 x 139.7 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, VASOO III, 1997, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 61 x 55 in (154.94 x 139.7 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, ADREE, 1989, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 90 x 77 in (228.6 x 195.58 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, AASO, 1989, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 90 x 77 in (228.6 x 195.58 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, RANAK, 2001, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 44 x 38 in (111.76 x 96.52 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, BHADRAA III, 2005, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 75 x 68.5 in (190.5 x 173.99 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, ANDHARE, 2005, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 75 x 68 in (190.5 x 172.72 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, MANJAREE II, 1996, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 78 x 57.5 in (198.12 x 146.05 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, VERGAA, 1973-2004, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 44 x 108 in (111.76 x 274.32 cm)
Natvar Bhavsar, GAT III, 2001, Dry pigments with oil and acrylic mediums on canvas, 45 x 108 in (114.3 x 274.32 cm)
Aicon is delighted to present Natvar Bhavsar Part III, a solo exhibition of early works by the eponymous seasoned New York artist. The show marks the third chapter in the ongoing story of Bhavsar being told at the gallery. It picks up two years after the previous exhibition, Sublime Light, and includes fourteen paintings created between 1987 and 2005.
His paintings evince influences from his childhood in India—surrounded by vivid textiles, practicing rangoli, and witnessing the Holi Festival—and his adulthood in New York. Cater Ratcliff opines on Bhavsar's use of color:
"The color's values are those of variety, subtlety and intensity; it has the capacity to draw out, to expand and deepen, perceptual experience. Bhavsar's works uniquely and extraordinarily invite an uninterrupted flow of perception, inflicting so subtly and focusing it so intensely that looking finally becomes its own purpose."
The canvases in the present exhibition represent a move away from the cubist blocks of the 1960s and vertical flashes of the 1970s toward an exploration of color fields and the universality of color. In the artist's own words, "Every time I look at a painting, what invites me to get absorbed is the experience of color."
Exhibition photography by Sebastian Bach
The impressive side by side solo exhibitions work together, not apart. A love of deep color isn't all the artists have in common at Aicon.