Rashmi Talpade Primary Medium: Collage Other media: Pen, Paint, Photography, Found material Keywords: Urban, Geometric, Architecture, Historical, Abstract

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Artist Statement
As an artist and photographer my work reflects my surroundings in minute detail. My photographs evolve into photo-collages of dense, reconstructed landscapes which speak of history, humanity, and our place in it. The collages then metamorphose into drawings of objects creating an optical play of visual depth, challenging perspectives and fictionalized worlds.
In my new series, the monochrome of black ink has replaced the color of the photo-collages and the drawings have begun assuming a 3-D character of the actual objects, with pieces pasted on multiple layers to create tile like components of a low relief paper mosaic. Geometric forms and clean sharp lines, juxtaposed on a background of multi-layered geometric paper shapes, merge abstraction with realism to build an environment that comments upon consumerism and replenishment.
Viewers must engage closely with the work to observe details, then step back to understand how the work multiplies spatially to create a complete image.





















Artist Bio
EDUCATION
1982 GDArt Fine Arts Sir J.J.School of Art, Bombay India
1984 GDArt Ceramics Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay India
1984 Photographic Society Of India, Bombay

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2006 Artistic Fellowship Grant by CT Commission on Culture & Tourism.

COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
Asian American Art Center, NY
Roopankar Museum of Modern Art, Bhopal, India
Community College, Middlesex, CT, USA
Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay, India
Living Traditions Gallery, Bristol, CT, USA
Ministry of Oil & Resources, New Delhi. India
Rotterdam University, Holland
Grindlays International Bank, Bombay, India

SELECT INVITATIONAL SHOWS
2009 Real Places, Ideal Spaces Albertus Magnus College, New Haven
Lost & Found CT Commission on Culture & Tourism, Hartford
Benefit Auction New Britain Museum of American Art
2008 Potluck Parachute Factory, New Haven
Urban Shape Hopkins School, New Haven
Curator's Pick, Best of CWOS Artspace New Haven
2007-08 Curator's Corner Pilot Pen Players Lounge Invitational, New Haven
2006-09 Benefit Auction Artspace, New Haven
2006 Array Haskins Laboratory, New Haven Flatfiles (Ensemble) Artspace, New Haven
2005 In the Round John Slade Ely Contemporary Art Center, New Haven
Picasso's Women Black Rock Arts Center, Bridgeport
Collages Haskins Laboratory, New Haven
2004 Butternut Ink Asian American Arts Center, NYC
Collages, Art Place, Physicians Building, Yale NH Hospital
1985 Faculty Student show, Bajaj Art Gallery, Bombay, India.

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Collages, Norwalk Community College, CT
2005 Continuum Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT
Cultures in Continuum Cheshire Academy, CT
2004 Backyard to Bombay York Square Gallery, New Haven
2003 Facets Middlesex Community College, CT
1998 Routes to my Roots Living Traditions Gallery, Bristol, CT
Full Circle Landmark Gallery, Wallingford, CT
1997 Untitled Living Traditions Gallery, Bristol, CT
1988 Collages Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
1986 Drawings, Bajaj Art Gallery, Bombay, India
1983 Collages Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, India

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Silk Road GE Headquarters, Stamford, CT
2007 101 Dresses Artspace, New Haven, CT
2005-07 Cultural Passages Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven
1999-2002, 2005-07,09 New Haven Paint & Clay Club (Award for best Collage)
2001 West Hartford Art League
1993 National Exhibition Pump House Gallery, Hartford.
1986 Professional Category State Art Exhibition, India.
Art International Greene Street Gallery, NYC
1981 Juried Show Art Society of India

VISITING ARTIST / RESIDENCIES
2008 Collage Workshop, New Britain Museum of American Art.
2001-06, 09 Arts Day, Cheshire
2000-01 Resident Artist, Young Audiences of CT
1999 2008 Project Meet The Artist, an invitational venture to bring the Art Gallery experience to regional elementary schools.
May 1983 & Feb 84 Invitational research residency to study local clay, kiln building at Shirajgao village, India, and educate local potters in technical aspects of strengthening clay bodies and glazes to create durable ceramics for their business.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007-08 Pilot Pen Invitational Show in Players Lounge, CT Tennis Center, New Haven, CT.
Dreams, Memories & Sleep, in collaboration with Yale Dept. of Psychiatry, Haskins Lab. Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
2002 Honor Through Art, a memorial exhibition of art works by the residents of the town of Wallingford in honor of the first anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, Wallingford Public Library
2001-02 Created and sold art and prints inspired by the September 11 tragedy to raise $1000, donated to American Red Cross

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2006-09 Member, Visual Arts Committee, Artspace New Haven
Director, City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven CT
2004-09 Member, Visual Arts

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