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

Ashwini Bhat
Ashwini Bhat at Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry
Born	Puttur, India
Awards	The Howard Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture
Website	ashwinibhat.com

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

• The Howard Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture (2013–14)[17][18]
• Shortlisted for Emerging Artist Award (2013–14), ICMEA 2013, Fuping, China[19]

Collections and exhibitions

• "50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics" at the American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, USA, 2016[20][21]
• “Standing Wave Exhibition,” The Studios Inc, National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2016 Conference, Kansas City, USA[22]
• Indian Museum at the FLICAM (FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums), Fuping, China[23][24]
• Sculpture Garden, Grand Hyatt, Chennai, India[25]
• Collection of Dr Raj and Asha Kubba, New Delhi, India[26]
• "Earth Took of Earth," solo show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island, USA[27][28][29]
• "Terra Firma," a two-person show with Sharbani Das Gupta, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI, USA[30][31]
• United Art Fair, New Delhi, India[32]
• "Allegory of Fire," Clayspace Co-op, Asheville, North Carolina, USA[33]

References

External links

• Official Website

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