Ashwini Bhat
Ashwini Bhat at Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry
Born
Puttur, India
AwardsThe Howard Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture
Websiteashwinibhat.com

Ashwini Bhat is an artist, based in Northern California. She is known for her sculptures.[1]

Biography and work

Born in Puttur, Karnataka, India Ashwini Bhat earned a master's degree in literature from Bangalore University. She studied classical dance (Bharata Natyam) for thirteen years and traveled internationally as a professional dancer in the Padmini Chettur Dance Company before beginning a career as a visual artist.[2]

Bhat studied ceramics with Ray Meeker at Golden Bridge Pottery[3][4] Pondicherry where she later worked as an artist-in-residence before building her studio and woodfiring kiln[5] near Auroville, Pondicherry, India.[6] Since 2015, she has lived in the USA.[7]

Bhat lives in Northern California with poet, writer Forrest Gander.[8]

Style and critical responses

Ashwini Bhat makes sculptural forms, some intimate scale and some larger than human scale.[9]

She has collaborated with other artists and writers, including Sharbani Das Gupta, Debra Smith, and Forrest Gander. In addition to gallery shows in India, her work has been exhibited in the USA, in Australia and in China and featured in major art publications such as Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion (USA,[10] The Logbook (Ireland),[11] New Ceramics (Germany),[12] Ceramic Art and Perception (Australia/USA), Marg Publications (India), Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), Ceramics Monthly (USA), Crafts Arts International (Australia),[13] Info Ceramica (Spain),[14] Art India (India), and Art New England (USA)[15]

Stephen S. Bush, professor of religious studies and philosophy at Brown University, writes in his essay ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Emerson and Ashwini Bhat’ ,[16] “The terrestrial themes of her sculptures, in combination with their humanistic sensibility, emphasize the fundamental embeddedness of humans in their geologic environs and the continuities between humanity and nature. By grounding human concerns so thoroughly in the dirt—used here as a term of approbation—Bhat’s sculptures speak of thoroughly immanent value.”

Awards

Collections and exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Van Siclen, Bill (2 April 2015). "Ashwini Bhat's sculptures, at Newport Art Museum, show a dancer's poise". Providence Journal.
  2. ↑ "Productions: Pushed [2006]". Padmini Chettur. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "What you see when you see: Pottery in Pondicherry now and then". Bangalore Mirror. 20 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Bringing you art in teapots". The New Indian Express. 28 March 2009.
  5. ↑ "Ceramic art". The Hindu. 17 February 2011.
  6. ↑ "Woodfire Kiln Sites". The Log Book.
  7. ↑ Kumar, Sujatha Shankar (24 February 2017). "On the trail of a Gypsy Potter". The Hindu.
  8. ↑ "Sonoma Ceramics welcomes Ashwini Bhat". Sonoma Index-Tribune. 9 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Sen, Jaideep (29 October 2018). "Ashwini Bhat plays global citizen for ceramics". Indulge Express.
  10. ↑ "Ashwini Bhat: Ceramic Sculptures". Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion (11): 161–168. 28 March 2019.
  11. ↑ "The Log Book. número 48, 2011". Infocerámica (in Spanish). 14 December 2011.
  12. ↑ "New Ceramics: Issue 06/14". new-ceramics.com.
  13. ↑ "Issue Details - Craft Arts International Magazine". Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  14. ↑ "Cerámica India - Infocerámica". infoceramica.com. June 2013.
  15. ↑ "Art New England - May / June 2015". ArtNewEngland.
  16. ↑ "Philosophical Perspectives on Emerson and Ashwini Bhat". RiotMaterial. 27 July 2017.
  17. ↑ "Previous Fellows". brown.edu.
  18. ↑ "Prince Awarded Howard Fellowship « RISD Academic Affairs".
  19. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2015-04-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. ↑ "Upcoming Events - EXHIBITION: 50 Women – A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics - American Jazz Museum". Archived from the original on 23 January 2016.
  21. ↑ "American Jazz Museum exhibit displays ceramic arts". 22 March 2016.
  22. ↑ "NCECA Alternative Spaces". 27 May 2016.
  23. ↑ "富陶产业集团". www.futogp.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  24. ↑ "The China feeling: experiments with clay in the middle country". thefreelibrary.com.
  25. ↑ KAUSALYA SANTHANAM (15 August 2012). "A Passage to India". The Hindu.
  26. ↑ "Delhi Blue Pottery Trust". delhibluepotterytrust.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  27. ↑ Newport Art Museum. "Ashwini Bhat: Earth Took of Earth". newportartmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015.
  28. ↑ "February Openings at the Newport Art Museum". abigaelelizabeth.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  29. ↑ "At the Museum: Winter exhibits show art community's diversity". NewportRI.com l News and information for Newport, Rhode Island. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  30. ↑ "Terra Firma: Gallery Show of Sharbani Das Gupta and Ashwini Bhat". Brown University. 17 March 2015.
  31. ↑ "Artscope Magazine » Current Issue". artscopemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2015.
  32. ↑ "Q&A: Heidi Fichtner on UAF 2013 - BLOUIN ARTINFO". Artinfo. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  33. ↑ "Arts & Thoughts Artistic - - Page 2". wordpress.com.
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