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Jayashree Chakravarty charges her work with multiple strata of meaning, both physically, through her thick, layered application of paint, and emotionally, through the several levels of associations each element on the surface holds for her. The artist, however, does not allow easy access to these layers. Her paintings are a mystery, silent witnesses to her cathartic practice.

Each of Chakravarty's large, layered works on canvas is a... Jayashree Chakravarty charges her work with multiple strata of meaning, both physically, through her thick, layered application of paint, and emotionally, through the several levels of associations each element on the surface holds for her. The artist, however, does not allow easy access to these layers. Her paintings are a mystery, silent witnesses to her cathartic practice.

Each of Chakravarty's large, layered works on canvas is a "…palimpsest, one improvisation partially obscuring another but leaving hints of each successive layer behind. The glittering surface is also reminiscent of a mosaic: as if in the flickering glow of candle light, explosions of light illuminate a tessellated surface. As in mosaic, the evocation of the ineffable is also embedded in Jayashree's densely- wrought, yet strangely fugitive painterly surface. The imagery floats, existing independent of the signs, textures and colours which accrete to them, like barnacles on the skin of a cetacean" (Michael Anderson, "The Shadow of Idea", In the Very Face of Time, Galerie 88 exhibition catalogue, 2006, not paginated).

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