Ray’s 2022 work is highlighted among more than 300 artists in the most comprehensive book on modern Indian art to date.
The Big Book of Indian Art: An Illustrated History of Indian Art from Its Origins to the Present Day is divided into eight sections, which each deal with a landmark art movement or school of Indian art. It traces the history of Indian art from its origins to the present day, and features the work of more than 300 Indian artists — painters, sculptors, illustrators, printmakers, multi-media artists, lithographers, and muralists — including School of Art Assistant Professor Sharmistha Ray.
Made in 2022 in gouache, watercolor, ink, and colored pencils on Fabriano Murillo paper, Ray’s featured work, seen above, is titled “A Nascent Map of Nonbinary Consciousness and Non-dual Philosophy Part I: Rebirth – Emerald Chrysalis – Shakti; One North Star, Cardinal and Fixed, Immovable Entity, Guiding Light (?); Four Spinning Bhavachakras Uncovered in the Geological Structure of Layered Planetary Systems; Resplendent Rainbow Fortune Emerging Through Awakened Self-Knowledge – The Spectrum of All Things – Dark Light; Eight Ebullient Comets Reaching into Ancient Stardust, etc.”
