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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
- Image of the Day -
"The Grand Vista"
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Feature Artist Bio
By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by Indian
landscape painter Bhavani Krishnan (born 1984 in Rheinfelden, Switzerland).
Born in Switzerland, Bhavani spent her formative years in India. She was always interested in art and enjoyed her drawing and painting classes in high school. After high school, she chose engineering as a profession. She spent the next 11 years studying for and pursuing a career in engineering. She picked up the brush again in 2012 and rediscovered her passion for art.
Bhavani has studied with well-known artists Anthony Ryder, Celeste Ryder, Timothy Stotz and Michelle Tully. She now lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and paints to her heart's content.
Education
- 2016 Selected as a fellow at the Hudson River Fellowship (awarded by Grand Central Academy, NYC)
- 2015-2016 full-time student at the Ryder Studio, Santa Fe (Atelier run by Anthony Ryder)
- 2015 Summer Intensive program at Studio Escalier, France
Shows and Events
- 2016 Paint the Peninsula Plein air Event, Port Angeles, WA
- 2016 Umpqua Plein air, Roseburg, OR
- 2016 Plein air Lake Oswego, OR
- 2016 Washington County Plein air Hillsboro, OR
- 2016 Hudson River Fellowship Plein air Group Exhibition
- 2016 Willamette Valley Lavender Festival Plein Air Event, Newberg, OR
- 2016 Ryder Studio Student Works show, Santa Fe, NM
- 2015 'Love is in the air' group show, Art on Broadway, OR
- 2015 'Portland Rivers contemporary art views' group show, Pittock Mansion, OR.
- 2014 'Holiday Treasures' Debra Huse Gallery, CA
- 2014 '6" squared' group show, Randy Higbee Gallery, CA
- 2014 Summa Realty two-person show, Forest Grove, OR
- 2014 Starbucks café solo show, Beaverton, OR
Awards
- 2016 Third place award at Washington County plein air, Hillsboro, OR
- 2016 Won Art Elements Gallery Patron’s Choice Award at the Willamette Lavender Festival Plein Air Event.
Collections
Works held in private collections in the USA, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, Germany and India.
Gallery #562
September 13, 2017
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Bhavani Krishnan (Born 1984)
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“As a visual artist, I express myself through my art. I strive for painterly realism in the variety of subjects that I paint in oils. I want my paintings to look real from a distance but up-close they are simply strokes of colors laid upon abstract shapes. I paint on location and in my studio.
Painting from life is the ultimate thrill for me. I see beauty all around me and I am constantly inspired to capture that in paint, in hopes of transcending my visual experience to the viewer. I look for patterns of light and shadow, evocative passages of color and exciting variety of shapes..”
