Artist Statement

My work is a contemporary statement of my perception of Inner and outer space juxtaposing with the time and space of every life experience. Incorporate into my creations visual, emotional and psychological impressions of urban tension. Among the raw emotions and harsh realities experienced there the scenario is tempered with gentle optimism and beauty. Living on a day-to-day basis, most of us are so caught up living in this world that we don’t have much time or energy to focus on how the world might become better. For many–probably most–people, there reality of those choices are not usually acknowledged consciously, at least not on a daily basis. Such people rather, live according to habit, and exist mostly with in choices given to them. These are mainstream media and educational systems, economic necessity, and immediate need satisfaction. But if we take time to reflect about it, we find that, in each given moment, we have do have the ability to choose how we want to perceive the world, and how we want to live in it. We all have fundamental choices to make about who we are in the world, what the world means to us, and what kind of world we want to help create.

By creating art, the most satisfying way I find to paint is the combination of the abstract and the figure. The freedom of abstraction and the emotions that the figure can carry, with the symbolic potential of the objective world are endless. The possibilities that abstraction presents in suggesting the unknown is almost magical. My paintings operate and hover visually somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea that might be reflecting on. My reactions to cultural and personal events of Inner and outer Spaces associated with our lives, thoughts, memories, and imaginations is paramount to the success of my paintings and sculptures. I translate these reactions into works made up of simplified forms, often with outsized proportions, to transcend time and space.

I try to paint what I believe in, eliminating any marks or images which feel disingenuous, listening to what the painting is telling me to do, rather than imposing my will on the work. In this way, it is my hope that the paintings aren’t driven self-consciously. They should emerge from a more enigmatic, less familiar place. In the process of painting, initiation, manipulation and removal of marks become one of the action and reaction. The paintings emerge slowly, one on top of the other, until they tell me I am done.

It is hard to explain the how and the why. It is easy to make a formal analysis of the work and to position it in the great and diverse continuum of contemporary painting.

My goal is to leave cognitive space for viewers to fill in. I want my work to provide a chance to see things from different perspectives with the dimensions of the pieces viewers to become conscious of the physical relationship to the objects and scale proportion, and humanity to elicit an emotional and intellectual response in my viewers.

Biography

Nipun Manda is an Asian American US citizen from Indian origin who had a regular urban life, and BFA, MFA graduated. He continued his artistic career in various areas as a Visual arts educator and Cisco networking academy Instructor. He has curated and participated in various national and international shows including Florence Biennale, Italy, Art Expo New York, Affordable Art fair, London, Paris art fair, Spectrum Miami Art Basel and World art Dubai, Lalit kala academy, New Delhi, India.

His works have been represented by various Galleries and Art fairs and has successfully held extensive solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work is part of national and international collections and has been reviewed in publications in North America and other parts of the world.

Art has always been an important part of his life. His paintings incorporate globalization with its own multi-ethnic heritage, believing that paintings conveys his rich experience in multi disciplinary media. “Art is a universal language that enhances the awareness, as well as the understanding and connecting other cultures.

He currently resides and continues studio practice in Maryland, USA.

Art is a wonderful journey for me

Nipun Fine Art Studio

Biography