Artist Information:
Suhas Tavkar
Bellerose, NY
United States
Member Since: Jul 2006
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Artist Statement:
Since my childhood I was
always thinking that our
universe is the God's largest
art Gallery with display of
big and small moving planets.
To see this exhibit during the
day the God has created
Sunlight and at night God has
created Moonlight. So far our
living planet earth is one of
the nature's greatest and the
best art piece, (until we
discover another living planet
like earth). Our earth's
oceans are God's created
largest and mysterious
aquariums in the living world
where you see real natural
artistic creations in the
light or in the dark deep blue
sea.
I was born in 1942 and raised
in Mumbai (Bombay), India, and
I was exposed to the art of
fingernail embossing as a
child but started doing
fingernail embossing at the
age of four. I have learned
this unusual and rare
fingernail relief art on paper
from my late architect father
Anant who in turn, learned it
from his father and mother as
a child (even today I can
trace my family names from
1562, means Nakhachitra art
has been practiced by my
family before that time for
generations). Today I can
produce the most intricate and
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions include: Queens
Main Public Library, New York
City Ballet Gallery,
Fingernail demonstration at
Kate's Paperie in Soho and
Indian show in Natural History
Museum.
The New York Public Library,
Donnell Library Center 20 West
53rd Street, New York, N.Y.
and
gave live fingernail embossing
demonstration IAAC's ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Graphic Design USA magazine,
New York: Suhas Tavkar is a
graphic artist who uses his
fingernails as tools to
produce intricate embossed
designs pressing into the
paper to the appropriate depth
and dimensions.
U&LC magazine, New York: by
Marion Muller
Most of us don't take our
fingernails too ...
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Collections:
Mary Morris,
Roosevelt Island, New York,
USA
Mr. Simon Alicea,
New York, New York,
USA
Mr. Shantaram,
Washington DC,
USA...
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Commissions:
Mr. Shantaram
Special Landscape design
before he left Bombay
for USA in 1975.
Mary Morris
New York,
Portrait of her Grand Child
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Suhas Tavkar's Free Artist Portfolio
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Since my childhood I was always thinking that our universe is the God's largest art Gallery with display of big and small moving planets. To see this exhibit during the day the God has created Sunlight and at night God has created Moonlight. So far our living planet earth is one of the nature's greatest and the best art piece, (until we discover another living planet like earth). Our earth's oceans are God's created largest and mysterious aquariums in the living world where you see real natural artistic creations in the light or in the dark deep blue sea.
I was born in 1942 and raised in Mumbai (Bombay), India, and I was exposed to the art of fingernail embossing as a child but started doing fingernail embossing at the age of four. I have learned this unusual and rare fingernail relief art on paper from my late architect father Anant who in turn, learned it from his father and mother as a child (even today I can trace my family names from 1562, means Nakhachitra art has been practiced by my family before that time for generations). Today I can produce the most intricate and ... |
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