Jayashree Chakravarty

About Jayashree Chakravarty

Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Tripura in 1956. She completed her Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Viswa Bharati in Santiniketan, and then obtained her postgraduate diploma in Fine Arts from MS University of Baroda, where she was exposed to an urban sensibility. She was also an artist in residence at Aix en Provence from 1993-95, where she was influenced in the formative years of her practice by the French movement Supports/Surfaces, especially by Claude Viallat. Chakravarty applies herself to articulating the visionary potential of the landscape. She attends to the relationship between the retinal perception of expanse and an ideal geography of the spirit, and to the metaphorical possibilities by which the genre of landscape can indicate the counterpoint between sociality and solitude. She seeks resolutions to the polarity between abstraction, tending towards meditative silence and the inwardness of the self, and figuration, representing loquacity and the presence of others. She has experimented with varying ratios of sweeping, gestural, blizzard-like forms to the single figure or group, incarnating the human predicament in a demanding universe.