Rupali Roy

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Education

Exhibition
Rupali Roy is a woman of many parts. She’s been a dancer, Interior designer, sculptor and now also a painter. She has done the interior decor for Jubilant Kalpatoru Hospital (N H Narayana Superspciality Hospital), Barasat, Crowns and Roots, Lansdowne and City Clinic, Bhawanipur, independently. She has also worked on the design and décor of different households.

Rupali has trained under the renowned Samir Aich and Ashit Paul. Her works have been extensively shown in India and abroad including Venice and Paris art fairs; an online curated show in New York, and Bangladesh.

Rupali’s Works are solid in mass, monumental even, and minimalist in detailing; quite often her subjects are genderless figures derived from shapeless blots of ink or colour on paper. They appear to grow out of a gut reaction to spreading wet blotches; much in the manner in which many of us who see animal or human shapes in clouds and moisture stains on walls; and often they reflect the anguish deep within the human soul. Her monolithic images are like congealed masses of emotions somewhat personified through anthropomorphic or zoomorphic, primitive looking figures, porous like volcanic rocks, yet dense like pitch black darkness. The very same gut response to random shapes also render a delightful liveliness to many of her solo figures on her preferred surface of work, the paper. Like the furry dog walking away with tail raised high; or the frontal wildness of Kali in her “Shakti”. Most of her humanoid figures feel palpably alive, somewhat bestial, although they seem to belong to a weeded out marginalized world. Perhaps they are the dreaded omnipresent “other “within us all, whom we dread to confront in life.