Three months back when her college-mate Kapil Mani Dixit came to see her it wasn’t the few pounds that Zaya had gained since their last encounter a decade back that surprised him. It was those scribbles, and they left him flabbergasted. [break]
“I saw the proficiency of some of the digital artists I had met in the US, so I proposed to her to put them on exhibit,” he said as Zaya stole a moment to snigger. Of course, Zaya had every reason to hesitate. To begin with, she did not know what on earth “digital art” was.Pensively observing the first sproutings of the laucat tree that stood over Apartment 8 Art Studio and Gallery, Zaya said, “Since I had my child, I had stopped painting. But as there was plenty of spare time I started playing with Photoshop.” The Fine Arts graduate from Lalitkala Campus added, “But when Kapil came with the proposal, I wasn’t sure. After all, no one save my nine-year-old son had praised the scribbles.”
Although Sharma has already participated in sixteen group exhibitions, “My New Works” that kicked off last Saturday at Apartment 8 Gallery, Ganabahal is her first solo. The eleven paintings that Sharma claimed were prepared within 200 hours make her the first woman digital artist in Nepal to exhibit.
Even though her initial plan was to come up with a dozen works, the twelfth was swallowed up by load-shedding when Sharma forgot to save the image. Every one of her paintings emerges from the black palette, which is a conceptual approach since Sharma is trying to “evoke the space beyond the realm of birth and death.”
Apartment 8 Gallery is the private studio of Kapil Mani Dixit, an art graduate from the University of Texas at Arlington. Revealing the secret behind its name Kapil said, “Since I love having something subjective in everything I possess, I’m naming this gallery after the apartment that I lived in when I was in the US, and which shared some of my most creative moments.”
The exhibition will continue till February 27.
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