Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 24: Seven young artists of Jammu will participate in the International Art Exhibition of black and white drawings and prints, being jointly organized by Smd Foundation Guwahati, Art Fort India, Chandigarh and Verman Cultural Celebrations, Jammu.
The Exhibition is to be dedicated to late Gobind Kaur, 1st Contemporary Woman Sculptor of J&K and will be inaugurated by Chandigarh based senior artist Prabhinder Lallat at the Master Sansar Chand Art Gallery of Kala Kendra, Jammu on August 27, 2019.
The art works of artists of four countries will be on display in the Show.
The participating Artists in the Exhibition include Simone Noseda (Italy); Keziban Ertugrul Yildirim (Turkey); Monisa Saha (Bangladesh); Mintu Deka, Meenakshi Bargohain and Bandana Nath (Assam); Prabhinder Lall, Manmadha Rao, Neeti Joshi, Perminder Kaur and Pardeep Verma (Chandigarh); Raghu Neware, Vaishali Pakhale and Vandana Prihagya (Nagpur); Shyam Sharma (Ghaziabad); Sankari Mitra (Kolkata); Dr. Nisha Soni (Kota); Neelu Kanwaria (Jaipur); Nijeena Neelambaram (Kerala); Bharti Sharma and Nishi Nitya – new delhi (New Delhi); Dr. Suneet Madan (Mohali); Rashmita Kanojia (Ambala); Arvind Sharma (Karnal); Mukesh K. Zile Singh (Kaithal); Lee Za (Patiala); Riya Abrol (Chamba); Harpreet Kaur (Jalandhar) and Shivani Singla (Ludhiana).
Senior artists Jang S Verman and Kamalnain Bhan as well as the young artists of J&K State viz. Renu Bala, Shivali Jamwal, Saurav Kumar, Payal Aggarwal, Vijay Singh and Bharati Rajput (Jammu) will also display their talent in this International Art Exhibition.
According to the organizers the forthcoming Exhibition is the 4th B&W Show in its series.
The Drawing & Print art works by different artists to be put on display in the exhibition have been executed in various art techniques and mediums like Pen- n- Ink, water colour, pencil, charcoal, crayon drawings and No Paint Images (an innovative technique) etc.
It is pertinent to mention here that Gobind Kaur was born in 1954. She, from her childhood had shown inclination towards drawing. In early 1970’s, she joined Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Jammu as a hobby, but later completed a full- fledged graduate level course.
Style of her work was influenced by her teacher and guide V R Khajuria, an eminent sculptor of the country, known for non- figurative abstract sculptures.
She won many national and state level awards and participated in number of solo and group shows including national and international exhibitions and camps.
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