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Anil Revri
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In the early years of the 21st century, when instantaneous visual communication has gifted or cursed us with an avalanche of images from every corner of the world, it is often misleading to speak of a contemporary artist’s work as characteristically French or American or German, Japanese or Chinese or Indian — when it is better considered as arising from the worldwide merging of cultures and peoples.
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In the early years of the 21st century, when instantaneous visual communication has gifted or cursed us with an avalanche of images from every corner of the world, it is often misleading to speak of a contemporary artist’s work as characteristically French or American or German, Japanese or Chinese or Indian — when it is better considered as arising from the worldwide merging of cultures and peoples.
National characteristics remain, of course, and in the case of Anil Revri we encounter the richly nuanced art of an artist who was born in New Delhi, whose taproots are in that specific and tangible part of the world, and who draws primary inspiration from that remembered and often revisited landscape. The vivid cultural particularities of India are also of great importance to him and his work. Thus, it is significant that his mother was an accomplished classical Indian dancer.
Revri completed his undergraduate design studies at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai (1977) and for the next five years, traveled and exhibited in India, France, Britain and the Netherlands before coming to the United States in 1982.
Anil Revri's oeuvre can be divided into two distinct groups. The first group consists of the abstract drawings and paintings executed from 1976 to 1996, which exploit the liquidity of the medium to arrive at biomorphic formations seemingly in a constant state of flux. The second group of works, executed after 1996, is sur-real in that it seeks to give form to experiences of a spiritual nature, through the technique of geometric abstraction.
In his essay for Revri’s retrospective exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, J. W. Mahoney, art critic for Art in America wrote, “How does Anil Revri’s art work? And why is it new? Paintings are places we know we can enter and withdraw from at our leisure. We look into a painting or drawing, spend time working its ideas and its presence into our own minds and hearts, and feel free to judge it, play with and inside it, be confused by it. In Revri’s work, your eye, travels into a piece, encounters, beyond natural visual pleasure, a kind of arresting pressure toward an unseen but thoroughly present openness. The work serves as a gateway into a weirdly natural spaciousness: a singularity experience, of a “point at which a function takes an infinite value.” Again, what we may be looking at is a geometric abstraction, but what we’re receiving is a fiercely voluntary journey into a primal experience of an invisible reality that clearly includes us, not as viewers but as participants. This is a singularity, a set of conditions that is set to open into a limitless passageway to another reality. This reality doesn’t stop; only the duration of our attention does. This is new. Anil Revri is using an easily readable modernist language, of ordered abstraction, not to produce a critique of arts language, but to validate a reality beyond the personal — by taking your awareness into it.”
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Born
January 8, 1956
New Delhi
Education
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Graphic Design), Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Interior Design), Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 ‘Prakriti’, Sundaram Tagore...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 ‘Prakriti’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2007 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Quantum’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2004 ‘In Search of Self: Paintings and Drawings by Anil Revri’, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2002 ‘Cultural Crossings: First Anniversary of 9.11’, IndoCenter of Art & Culture, New York
2001 ‘Cultural Crossings’, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago and F. Donald Kenney Museum, St. Bonaventure University, New York
2000 ‘Cultural Crossings’, Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spritual Leaders, Waldorf-Astoria, New York
1999 ‘Cultural Crossings’, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
1999 IMF Gallery, Washington, DC
1997 American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC
1996 Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
1996 India International Centre, New Delhi
1995 Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC
1993 American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC
1992 National Arts Club, New York
1991 New India House, New York
1990 India International Centre, New Delhi
1987 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
1985 Festival of India, M. Darling Ltd., New York
1981 Foyer du Beffroi, Tours, France
1981 Meridien Hotel, Paris
1980 India House, London
1980 India Tourist Office, Paris
1980 Alliance Française de Delhi, New Delhi
1980 Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1978 Galerie ‘t Atelier, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1978 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1977 Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, Mumbai
1977 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1977 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1977 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
1976 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 ‘In Your Mind’s Eye’, An Asian Group Show at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2008 ‘Global Art’, Works by Christina Barroso, Ali Hassan, Fré Ilgen and Anil Revri in Conjunction With a Discussion on Global Art, Checkpoint 3, Ilgen’, Berlin
2008 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverly Hills
2007 ‘Of Paper’, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2007 ‘Colors’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Heart of DC’, City Hall Art Collection, Washington, DC
2006 ‘Next Level’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 ‘East/West’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Secret Places/Silent Journey’, The Art of Yuriko Yamaguchi, Kit-Keung Kan, Anil Revri, Juliane Min, Foon Sham and Chul-Hyun Ahn. Asian Arts & Culture Center, Towson University, Towson, MD
2005 CapitalOne Headquarters Gallery, McLean, VA
2000 All Media Juried Show, Arlington Arts Center,
1999 Grolla D’oro, Italy
1999 ‘Pyramid Atlantic: Washington Area Artists’, The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
1998 ‘Pyramid Atlantic’, Arts Club of Washington, DC
1998 ‘Pyramid Atlantic: A Study in Collaboration’, The Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
1998 ‘Neighbors: The Corcoran at the OAS’, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington
1996 ‘December in Japan’, Japan Information & Culture Center, Washington, DC
1996 Wallace Galleries, New York
1996 ‘Watermarks’, The Athenaeum, Arlington, VA
1996 Mansion Art Gallery, MD
1996 Juried Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, VA
1994 ‘Light’, Capitol Hill Arts League, Washington, DC
1994 DCAC, First Anniversary Exhibition, Washington, DC
Participations
2008 ‘Art Chicago’, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2008 ‘International Art Fair’, New York, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2008 ‘Art Dubai’, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2007 Florence Biennale, Italy
2007 Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York
2007 Toronto Art Fair, Canada
2007 ‘Gateway Bombay’, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2007 DC Art Fair, Washington, DC. Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2007 ‘Art Miami’, 17th International Modern + Contemporary Art Fair, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Asian Art Fair’, Shanghai, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Asian Art Fair’, Hong Kong, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Chicago Art Fair’, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 Asian Art Fair, The Armory Show, New York, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Collaboration as a Medium: 25 years of Pyramid Atlantic’, Maryland Art Place, MD
2005 ‘Collaboration as a Medium: 25 years of Pyramid Atlantic’, PEPCO Gallery, Washington, DC
2005 ‘Art Miami’, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Chicago Art Fair’, Represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora’, organized by Sundaram Tagore, the Indo-American Arts Council, Inc., New York
2003 ‘About Time’, Corcoran Alumni Invitational Show, Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC
2002 ‘India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections’, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2001 ‘Lichtenstein and Beyond: Recent Acquisitions of Modern Prints and Drawings’, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1999 Malta Bienalle
1999 Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the NEA, Washington, DC
1998 Contemporary Print Fair, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
1998 21st Annual Art on Paper, MFA. Gallery on the Circle, Annapolis, MD
1998 International Juried Show ’98. New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ
1995 Fourth Annual Corcoran Alumni Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1995 Penn State University Juried Exhibition, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.
1994 National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, Inc., New York.
1994 Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, Reston, VA
1980 Annual Exhibition, Punjab Lalit Kala, Chandigarh
Honours and Awards
2001 ‘Graphis Poster Annual 2001’, Poster Design for Georgetown...
2001 ‘Graphis Poster Annual 2001’, Poster Design for Georgetown University, Washington, DC
2000 51st Annual Show, Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington
2000 Exhibition Sponsors for Cultural Crossings at the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, Waldorf-Astoria, New York
1999 First Prize, Grolla D’oro, Italy
1999 First Prize, Malta Biennale
1999 Graphis: Promotion Design 1 invitation design for the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1998 Visual Arts Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the NEA
1997 Small Projects Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the NEA
1997 Graphis: Poster Annual 1997, two posters: Homage to Tadanori Yokoo and Homage to Yusaku Kamekura
1996 Grant from Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
1995 Annual Show. Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Washington, DC
1994 ‘Real Show’, Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Washington, DC
1994 Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USA
1981 Grant from Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
1981 Grant from Sanskriti, India
1998 14th Mayor’s Arts Awards finalist, Washington, DC
1980 First Prize, Punjab Lalit Kala, Chandigarh
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