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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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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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Reviews for Suhas Tavkar:
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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 seriously. Sure they come in handy for scratching an itch, scraping little stains out of cloths and untangling knots in shoelaces. But we don't pay them much attention except for an occasional cleaning, filing and polishing. Not for Suhas Tavkar. He is a graphic artist with a heavy investment in his fingernails, especially those of his right thumb, forefinger and middle finger. It is with those precise tools that he produced intricate embossed designs.
Calligraphy Book Now by Margaret Shepherd: This raised letter was made by a unique twentieth century expert, who hand embosses intricate letters and designs with a specially sharpened fingernail.
HinduismToday Magazine, Hawaii. By Lavina Melwani, New York.
If Ganesha is everywhere even in a grain of rice, He is surely in the tip of the fingernail especially Suhas Tavkar's Fingernai. How else to explain the magic that this New York based artist can create with his bare hands? Take away his paints, paintbrushes and pencils, and he can still give you exquisite art. For many years he has been creating elaborate Lord Shiva, Ganeshas, Hanumanans, Ballerinas and Gracian Sculptures. All he requires is a piece of paper, a keen eye and his low-tech but highly skillful fingernails.
Articles published on Suhas Tavkar in NY Journal Japan in 1984, India Abroad, News India, Little India,
Queens Tribune, Newspaper.
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