EXCERPTS FROM SELECTED REVIEWS
Her hybrid monoprint paintings are delicate and layered; she can make objects float in the neither-here-nor-there ether.
Seph Rodney, "A show of luminous paintings', Hyperallergic 2018
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, "A show of luminous paintings', Hyperallergic 2018
They are about deep spaces, of the mind, of the subconscious, undersea,night sky or about light itself. They are floating spaces without a horizon.They may resemble a meta-scape but the sheer technical procedure of working through layers, image translation across surfaces and acts of markmaking disallow the mystical; instead, they set into motion the poetics of paint and a dialectic between the familiar and the uncanny.
Parul Dave Mukherjee, "A Fauvist feast, towards a tautology of practice',2017
Such a degree of inner self-regard, or inner dialogue, is as rare as it is difficult. It is solipsistic, on one hand, and totally open to the world on the other hand, all at once; at the same time it represents something perfectly communicable and totally opaque. In such dream-like states we regain complete autonomy. This sovereign autonomy is the essence of Tara Sabharwal's paintings.
In her work one sees a palette of earth and sky and every thing in between intimately and closely related to our possible experience of color in the world. As the embodiment of a constant tension between above and below they are the mediation of light above all. Distilled light, filtered through air, leaves, skins, objects and bodies of all sorts, embracing the worlds of humanity, animals, plants, and stars, permeates her canvases.
Yehuda Emmanuel Safran, 'In other rooms', 2013
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, 'In other rooms I meet myself', 2013
The long years of working in sumei ink and watercolors displays a poetic sensibility that distinctly complements Tara’s naïve yet sophisticated visuality, poised between delicacy and resilience. Colour exudes light as experienced underwater on forms or by forms in the lowly illuminated moonlight. The faint liquid tones interspersed with sharp details create the distance between things through emotive scaling. Even a matter of fact image gains an aura in its blurry presence.
Roobina Karode, 'In other rooms I meet myself', 2013
Perhaps, that’s why, in surveying this dreamscape of etchings and monotypes, one is left astonished, yes, but also filled with an enormous sense of intimacy with a world that, no matter what its enclosures, remains open, playful, unresolved and, yes, optimistic.
Stathis Gourgouris, The Open dream paths of Tara Sabharwal, 2013
Sabharwal's dense watercolors make an intense and intricate impact. With cultural roots in India and Europe- her paintings hint at obscure rites and mythologies, along with psycological and emotional undercurrents.
Peter Inch, Art Review, 1991
These are vulnerable paintings, composed of raw tissue, at times harsh and nervous, at times delicate and intimate. Tara's paintings explores the regions of the mind- regions of reverie, enchantment, alienation and uncertainity.
Stephanie Brown, Art News 1989
Delicately poised between dream and reality, Tara;s figures play our private fantasies, yet have not lost touch with the world.
Using sweeping strokes and frenetic gestures, she draws childlike forms which are almost apologetic in their somewhat hesitant and apologetic construction. This purposeful underplaying results in strengthening the incongruities of the situations depicted and imparts a sense of innocence and openness to the work.
Kamala Kapoor, Frenetic gestures, 1987
Selected Bibliography, Books, Videos and Links
Seph Rodney A show of Luminous paintings overshadowed by crowded curation, Hyperallergic, NYC 2018
Drishti Vij Deconstructing Color, The Patriot, India, 2017
Shilpa R An act of Spontaneity, The Hindu, India, 2017
Pallavi Chattopadhya Traveling Light, Indian express, India, 2017
Gandhi Ranjan Exploring the abstract with Tara Sabharwal, The Week magazine, India, 2017
Correspondent American artist of Indian origin returns to Delhi, Sunday Guardian, India, 2017
Vinay Agrawal Art becomes her, Society magazine, 2018
Parul Dave Mukherjee A Fauvist Feast: Towards a Tautology of Practice
Yehuda Emmanuel Safran Dream and Existence in Tara Sabharwal's Paintings, New York, 2016
Sophie Sanders Tara Sabharwal: Embracing the Lightness of Being, New York 2016
Yehuda Emmanuel Safran In Other Rooms, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India 2013
Roobina Karode In Other Rooms, I Find Myself, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2013
Andy McCord Tangible, Intangible, Palpable, Ineffable Space and Spirits, Galerie Janzen, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2013
Orlanda Brugnola New Work by Tara Sabharwal, Hishio Gallery, Japan, 2008
Michael Chisolm Tara Sabharwal, VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2007
Salwat Ali Leading Pathways, Confining Passages, Dawn Newspaper, February 24, 2007
Karin Miller-Lewis Thoughtful Explorations, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2006
Stathis Gourgouris The Open Dream Paths of Tara Sabharwal, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2006
Nanditta Chibber The Wanderer. Business Standard Newspaper, New Delhi,India. September, 2006
Manoj Nair A Paletteful of Asha. The Economic Times, New Delhi, India, 24 September 2006
Archana Indian Shades from New York City. Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India. September, 2006
S Kalidas Hidden Worlds of the Self. India Today Magazine, New Delhi. September, 2006
Avtar Singh Open Dream Paths of Tara Sabharwal. Outlook, New Delhi, India. September, 2006
Madhur Tahkna Fusion of Eastern and Western Cultures. The Hindu, New Delhi, India. September, 2006
Dee Whittington and Jackie Newell Monoprints of Tara Sabharwal, From Book, Monoprinting. The Printmaking Manual.
Art Correspondent Colors of a Different World. The Financial Times, New Delhi, India. September 2002
Corinna Ghaznavi Wish, WARC Gallery Group Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 2002
Hans Dorflinger Tara Sabharwal, Neue Gallery, Konstanz, Germany, 2002
Karin Miller-Lewis Mysteries of the Mundane, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2002
Karin Miller-Lewis No Place Like Home, Art India Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Quarter 1, 2000
Ebrahim Alkazi The Dream of Waking Consciousness, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi, India, 1996
Prayag Shukla Towards a Maturing Intensity, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi, India, 1996
Lavina Melwani American Indian Art, Little India, March 1994
Suneet Chopra An Emotional Look at Radical Feminism, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi. India, 1993
Elizabeth Wix 4 Artists’ Melancholic Reflections, Council for the Arts on the North Shore. Glen Cove, NY, 1992
Peter Inch Tara Sabharwal: Paintings & Drawings 1988-1991, Harewood House.Terrace Gallery, Leeds, UK, 1991
Stephanie Brown Tara Sabharwal- Paintings and drawings, Laing Art Gallery, NewCastle. For Art News Magazine, 1989
David Olivant Tara Sabharwal, Darlington Art Center, Myles Meehan Fellowship, 1989
Kamala Kapoor Frenetic Gestures, Art Heritage & Cymroza Gallery Traveling Exhibition, Delhi and Mumbai, India, The Sunday Observer Art Review, 1987
Ivan Prescott Tara Sabharwal , Art Heritage & Cymroza Gallery Traveling Exhibition, New Delhi. India, 1987
D.G Natkarni Impressive Debut by Baroda Artist, Times of India Art Review, New Delhi, India, 1987
Isana Murti A New Complexity, The Sunday Observer Art Review, Mumbai, India, 1987
Mary Rose Beaumont RCA Painting & Printmaking Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 1982
BOOKS
Create!, by Ronald Rand, 2016
Directing Art: Ebrahim Alkazi: The Making of a Modern Indian Art World, edited by Parul Dave-Mukherjee, 2016
Lo Real Maravilloso, 2017. Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India. Exhibition Book, by Sunil Mehra, 2009
Contemporary Art in Baroda, edited by Gulam Mohammad Sheikh and Belinder Dhanoa, 2006
Monoprinting, The Printmaking Handbook, By Jackie Newell and Dee Whittington, 2006
VIDEOS & PODCASTS
VoCa Talk, Voices of Contemporary Art, NYC, Nov 2017 at Fales Library, NYU. http://www.voca.network/programs/voca-talks/
From Hishio: Tara Sabharwal, Artist Residency at Center for International Cultural Exchange, HISHIO, Japan, video by Tom Dean, 2008
Tara Sabharwal, Asian American Art Center, New York, video by Weigang Song, 2016
Syntalk: The Dreamy Sleepy States. https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn-three/tdss/
CLASSES
Women's Studio Workshop,
https://wsworkshop.org/event/monoprint-tara-sabharwal/
http://www.wsworkshop.org/event/monoprint-tara-sabharwal/2017-08-07/
https://wsworkshop.org/event/monoprint-tara-sabharwal/
https://wsworkshop.org/event-artists/tara-sabharwal/
LINKS
Art alive gallery, New Delhi, India.
http://www.artalivegallery.com/artists.php?cat=artists&scat=150
View Catalog 2013 Exhibition
http://www.artalivegallery.com/shows.php?cat=shows&scat=past_shows&show_display=154&show_work=true&navpage=/shows.php&navcat=shows&navscat=past_shows&nav_showd=154
Martina Janzen, Wuppertal, Germany.
http://www.janzen-galerie.de/03kuenstler/sabharwal_tara/sabharwal_tara.htm
Wilmer Jennings gallery
https://www.kenkeleba.org/exhibition
The Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL Program (Creating A Living Legacy)
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/call
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/call/artists/tara-sabharwal
Gottlieb Foundation Artist Support Grant
http://www.gottliebfoundation.org/2016-individual-support-grant-recipients/
The British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Tara+Sabharwal
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O481970/collage-untitled/?print=1
MONA Museum of Nebraskan art
https://mona.unk.edu/mona/?s=Tara+Sabharwal
Adrian Duckworth museum
http://www.aidronduckworthmuseum.org/guest-artist-program
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Georgia,
https://www.ghia.org/events/tara-sabharwal-partners
Hishio, Japan. International center for cultural exchange
http://www.hishioarts.com/en/exhibition-events/past-exhibitions/tara-sabharwal/
Women's Studio Workshop
http://www.wsworkshop.org/artists/tara-sabharwal/
http://www.wsworkshop.org/2017/01/tara-sabharwal/
http://www.wsworkshop.org/event/monoprint-tara-sabharwal/2017-08-07/
Vermont Studio Center
https://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/tara-sabharwal
Atelier Beisinghoff
http://atelierhausbeisinghoff.blogspot.com/
Artsasiaamerica. A digital archive of Asian/Asian American contemporary art history
http://artasiamerica.org/artist/detail/66
Indo- American art council (IAAC) New York.
Erasing borders group show,of Indian diaspora artists. 2007-2012
http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders2007/t_sabharwal/painting.htm
http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders2008/t_sabharwal/painting.htm
http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders2009/t_Sabharwal/artwork.htm
http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders_2011/tara_sabharwal/artwork.htm
http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders_2012/TSabharwal/artwork.htm
Monumental ideas in Miniature books
http://mimb.org/artists/list2/Sabharwal.html