Ashok Bhowmick , born in Kolkotta in 1953 is a senior renowned artist from India and is also known as a “Master of Cross-hatching”. Ashok is a multitalented individual and practicing artist since more than four decades. Apart from being an exceptionally good painter, he is also an experimental sculptor and a profound thinker and writer.
Be it paper or canvas, small or large, Ashok fills the spaces with his unique cross hatching rendered with pen and ink. He creates the darker spaces with dense mesh of lines while lighter areas are achieved through controlled arrangements of lines. It is indeed a matter of utmost dedication that has made his paintings so exclusive that it has become his inimitable signature.
Education
- 1975: Graduation in Western Painting From College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
Exhibitions:
- 2017- Embodied Black, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 2018- Embodied Black, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2017 - Nandan Museum, Kala Bhavana, Visva Santiniketan
- 2010- Nandan Museum, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati (inaugurated by
K.G. Subramanyan)
- 2009-Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
- 2008-Tamarind Art Gallery, New York
- 2006-07- Tao Gallery, Mumbai
- 2006- Gallerie 88, Kolkata
- 2000- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1997-Art Today, Delhi
- 1996- Gallerie 88, Kolkata
- 1996-Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1994-Sophia Duchesne Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sponsored by Birla Academy
- 1991- Gallerie 88,
- 2013-Kala Bhavana faculty exhibition, Lalit Kala, Delhi, Patna
- 1976 - 2009- Invited Artist at Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy
- 1992-2005- Gallerie 88, Kolkata,
- 1994-1999- Centre Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1992- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, sponsored by Art Trust
1991- Sarala