Puja Sarkar is an Indian Visual Artist, Curator and Social Activist based in Kolkata. She received B.V.A  and MFA degree in Painting from the Faculty of Visual Arts at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. After completing Art College, Puja has been actively working as a full-time artist for 16 years now. She is also a well-known art educator and engaged with various government and private institutions. Puja works for socio-cultural issues for the betterment/upliftment of the underprivileged children and contributes her best effort in this regard. Since 2009, she also founded ‘SMS - A Group of Artists’, a well-known artistic and social organization (www.smsgroupartist.com)

 

She got national award (Junior Fellowship) from Ministry of Culture, Gov.t of India in 2022. Her works have been exhibited in many international exhibitions like in Italy, London, UK, Korea, USA, Bangladesh (including solo shows) and participated in more than 100 national exhibitions, including eighty sponsored shows, and in national and international art fairs, painting camps, and workshops. She has been invited as a Judge in many prestigious art events in India.

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Indian visual artist and social activist Puja Sarkar is a feminist who adores artworks of Frida Kahlo, enjoys reinterpreting her life from a feminist perspective and combining pop art elements with surrealist ideas in a daring and colorful way. She paints to express herself, her untold story, and her feelings. Since childhood, she has faced a lot of restrictions, strict discipline, and loneliness. she was spending her life with detachment from outside incidents of the materialistic world. her intimation grew up with many intimate objects surrounding her with her silent like bags, combs, lipstick, mobile phones, safety pins, umbrellas, footwear, eyeglasses, etc., and some forms of human body parts that attract me. Her creations become quasi-autobiographical reinterpretations with inanimate objects which are converted into animated things with all her feelings and passion, like a living being.

As a full-time artist, she has been engaged herself to experiment with bright colours and ingenious use of textures which manipulated aptly in her paintings. Henri Matisse's colour scheme serves as an influence for Puja, who uses brushes, rollers, inks, and paints spontaneously to create a dazzling canvas.

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From my childhood, I spent my life a lot of restriction and discipline as well as very much loneliness. Consequently, spending life in this way I have detached from outside incidents in the materialistic world. Therefore, I was very much intimate with many objects which were surrounding me. I felt attracted to the shapes & colors of the objects. I made a friendship & an emotional attachment to these objects.

When I grew up and connected with materialistic world, then I felt an unchangeable intimacy with some specific objects which grew up with my silence from my childhood.

I am choosing my painting’s subject based on my experiences and feelings which gives me various impressions in different times. I find many kinds of innovative forms of the objects I use every day.

I can see many organic forms in these objects and find them through my imagination. The objects are lady’s bag, shoes, lipstick, comb, mobile phone, eye-glasses, and umbrella, etc. I brought my object as a metaphor. I crafted its objectivity and functionality in a different face. Sometimes I use these objects as a motif or as a simple form. Sometimes I use hybrid images in my paintings which is belongs consciously & unconsciously in my mind. Sometimes directly & indirectly I depict sexual passion between male & female. I put in presentations executions by breaking my surface and furnishing them with different materials, based on the concept.

My paintings have a narrative, symbolic quality and juxtaposition of images. I use bright, energetic & symbolic color & textural surface for execution of paintings.I will keep on bravely with contemporary fashion & passion, problem, incident, relations, feeling, cruelty, dread, social awareness, insecurity, greediness to frame my concept letter on.

 

I shall be going to present and transfer the 2 dimensional illuasional objects in the real world through my concept. Therefore, I want to transfer my concept from conventional medium to unconventional medium. As a freelance artist when I work with conventional medium or unconventional medium I would like to experiment with both mediums. It helps me to reach my works in a progressive way.

 

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