November 04, 2007
Preet Srivastava
From Ego:
Preet Srivastava was born in India, lives and works in New York. She grew up on the West Coast, in a family of artists, at a time when India seemed very far way. Time has changed that and her connection with India is evident. She has a “relationship with bindis” and you see at least one dot in each of her canvases, sometimes obvious and sometimes hidden. After an undergraduate degree in Biology, Preet went to Johns Hopkins to study Medical Illustration but soon realized that she wanted to do something “less confining”. She subsequently joined the ART Academy in San Diego. Though grateful to Art School for teaching her the fundamentals she recognized that she was being forced to throw away her heritage and become a “European Painter”. “As long as we don’t lose something that is inherently our own, it’s okay.”
She loves Bollywood movies and finds them romantic but adds that they “could take a stronger turn towards different looking actors”. In that light she read an essay about art and Bollywood by Indian cultural theorist, Ranjit Hoskote, that “hit her in the stomach”. It talks in essence about how artists works “should not be about negation but negotiation”.
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Preet Srivastava is the living form of her art, and her art is a stationary form of Preet. Beautiful, intelligent, and thought provoking, Preet will water your soul as though she was Mother Nature herself.
Posted by: Lanny Kimsey | Mar 7, 2008 6:57:59 PM
Preet Srivastava was born in India. She lived painting in the Chicago, India, and the West Coast. Her relationship w bindies has to do w a circle of red that combines a spiritual beauty with the rest of world. Her efforts paint that harmony in nature of herself linked to harmony in the social, natural, and environmental.
Preet's work doesnt fight and complain about the world instead it begins to celebrate and promote sacredness of the world. Opening your self to her work you may find that decency, bravery and gentleness available for yourself and all human beings.
Preet believes that she is a citizen of the world and that her style doesn't belong to India or Europe or America or Africa or or or...but perhaps to all of the world. Again her work tries to recapture the self to create the ideal conditions of existence for a human world without denying the difference.
Posted by: Museum of Modern Art | Mar 14, 2008 12:16:47 PM
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