“Sabharwal’s keen eye for color and nuances in hue, such as in “Steam”(2017), are demonstrated throughout the exhibition Float. And for someone who manipulates shade and tone as deftly as she does, it’s impressive that her sense of compositional structure is just as strong which can be seen in the black and white print “Anniversary” (2016), which depicts what may be dandelion wisps  wafting to the foreground to become a garden of human eyes settling onto a bone-white ground below. Loveliness lives in her hands.

— Seph Rodney, senior critic Hyperallergic

 

“They may resemble a meta-scape but the sheer technical procedure of working through layers, image translation across surfaces and acts of mark-making disallow the mystical; instead, they set into motion the poetics of paint and a dialectic between the familiar and the uncanny.”

- Parul Dave Mukherjee

 

Everything Tara paints has the presence of intense imaginings, and seems to be caught in a state of slow awakening, breathing on the surface, unsettled as yet in its own body. The ‘strangely familiar’ and the ‘familiarly strange’ are all prompted by the everyday life but acquire composite dimensions so that the inadequacies of the self can be overcome. 

- Roobina Karode