APARNA BANERJEE
Artist
“I am a visual story teller and welcome you to my visual stories” says artist Aparna Banerjee.
Growing up in a Bengali family which encouraged artistic and intellectual conversations, she took to expressing through art at an early age and firmly believes that “one can create anything once you see it in
your mind.”
She paints, with determination, imagination and most importantly, with fearlessness.
‘An idea sits inside me for a while, and then emerges, that’s when it forms on canvas or paper.’
Awarded for exemplary work by UNESCO Club in Greece at the ‘’Athena’’ Art Fair, her works have been exhibited in New York Art Expo, Summit in Maldives, China, ‘Windows for India’ in Switzerland and in National Gallery of Modern art Russia, Moscow, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg.
Aparna has over 74 national and international exhibitions to her credit. An abstract artist and works on the concept of "Woman" and is In her adolescent schooldays she found ‘art a necessary and healthy escape for me.
’ Today, Aparna is an acclaimed artist of international repute and has proudly represented India at numerous Art platforms and Art Summits and says ‘I love making art and getting lost in the process – letting it take over my whole self.’
A superb colourist, Aparna integrates contrasting and complementary colours with unbridled confidence. Her deft and gestural brushstrokes,
palette knives and other tools help her increase her visual language. Her aesthetically orchestrated compositions and use of colours and contrasting textures add depth to her art. As an international critic said of her works ‘there is perfect harmony and balance in her works.’
Times New York
I met Aparna first time on 2017 in New York. She came here for her solo exhibition which was organized by New York Art Connection Gallery. Honestly speaking, on our first meeting,I was spellbound to know Aparna's spiritual soul which is longing for art and art matters. On that day, I enjoyed Aparna's paintings and her feminist messages through her paintings.
Aparna focuses freedom, feminism and liberalism through her art works. Her subjects and expressions are so uniqe which can portray a vigorous identity of her Artist personelity.
Later I interviewed Aparna in my TV show "Unparallalled Women" for our South Asian TV Channel Time Television. On that show Aparna spoke that she is a self taught Artist, she started her art journey on 2007 and travelling through a phenomenal learning process of art
and art matters in these journey. That day again I became spelbound to her simplicity of mind and dedication to art.
Now Aparna turned into a successful gallerist as well. She acieved many credentials as an Artist and Art Activist. I wish her many more new feathers to come on her crown from the art world. Good luck Aparna.
Dima Nefartity
TV Host and Documentary Film Maker
New York, USA