Avani Patel

Avani Patel

Born in Mumbai, India / Works in New York
BIO
Born in Mumbai, India, I immigrated to Pennsylvania with my family at 11 years old. I hold a BA from University of Pennsylvania and MFA from Tyler School of Arts (Temple University). My paintings have been exhibited in New York, Providence, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Chicago, Dubai, Panama, Portugal, and Mexico.
Art has been an integral part of my life since I was a young girl. I used to go to the theater with my sister for rehearsals and her dance shows. Looking at all the colorful costumes, flowing dresses and festivity around, I felt that the colors are speaking to me. It made me joyful and painting became an entertainment for me. Few youthful years of entertainment helped me tap into the power of art. It enabled me to live life in rich joy and full of creativity. After all these years, I have found that nothing brings me more joy and happiness than expressing my imagination through art. Rich colorful culture of India, music, various forms of nature has always inspired and influenced me in carving my imagination on to a canvas. I travel different parts of the world to connect myself to the endless source of ideas coupled with their culture and its surroundings of natural environment. I capture those moments and imaginations to revive them into creative images. I draw and paint from things I see in nature and everyday surrounding of personal experiences, narratives and memories. I use mark-making and repetition as tools to signify change in nature, the passage of time and retention and rejection of memory. What I like the most is the way I would demonstrate, or would draw along with times, such as study of my drawings of nature which will take me few months to create and that helps me understand my colors and pattern. What is working and which element of nature I can transfer them to my big size paintings? I'm a visual learner so this helps me personally, and also as an artist. Doing this helped to not only improve my personal skills but it gave more credibility to me as an artist.
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