Kiran Chugani
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"I try, in my paintings, to bring out the emotional and spiritual aspects of human existence. I find that what excites me most in my paintings is the act of evoking certain emotions and discovering the depth and intricacies of these emotions and understanding human nature. Western and Eastern philosophy meet on my canvas where, in my limited space, I create a world in which everything is reduced to it's simplest form: what Plato calls truth, beauty, and goodness and what the Vedanta philosophy refers to as Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. The usage of color, texture, simple brushstrokes, and forms found in this realm are used to create a sense of calmness and meditative pause." |
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Kiran Chugani was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She has also lived in the US, the UK, Switzerland, and India, and has an academic background in studio art, jewelry design, social work, and the culinary sciences. Kiran has studied painting in Washington D.C. with renowned local artists like John Figura, Tom Nakashima, and Mary Frank. Having experimented with ceramics, photography, sculpture and stained glass, she finds her greatest inspiration in her oil paints. Her work has been shown in Lausanne (Switzerland), Florence (Italy), Washington D.C., New York (USA), Casablanca and Tangier (Morocco), Mumbai and Pune (India), featured in the "Mid-Atlantic Marvels" exhibit in Fairfax, Virginia, and auctioned in New York for Manavi, an NGO for South Asian battered women.
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