Rahul Vajale

At a time when many young painters are tempted to adopt one or another of the prevailing house styles of contemporary Indian art, Rahul Vajale pursues a refreshingly idiosyncratic agenda. His imagery is not influenced by the media. His work does not suffer from the semiotic clutter that afflicts any number of young artists, testimony to their misguided attempts at scanning and grabbing the hard-won sophistications of Parthan, Dodiya, Nair, Kallat and Natesan. Nor does Vajale try and win on mere scale, stretching paint and losing detail in the effort to cover the distance from one edge of a vast canvas to the other. And, most fortunately, he remains untouched by that XL enthusiasm for civil-society initiatives of social awareness which, in the absence of true radicalisation, serves numerous young artists as a feeble politics.

Instead, Vajale’s charcoal drawings on paper and acrylic paintings on canvas are marked by an attractive crispness of handling and clarity of image. His drawings insist, in their dramatic precision, that we follow the charcoal on its image-making journey around a head, rising up against the whiteness of the paper in jags, flows and curlicues: the line folds itself around the psychic history of a personality,...

BFA.(Drawing and Painting) and
MFA. ( Creative Drawing and Painting) from Sir J.J. School of Art Mumbai.(INDIA)

Solo shows
2019 Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai.
2014 Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai.
2009 ”Creatures Great and Small “Pundole Art Gllery,Mumbai.
2006 “In the Shadow of the Anti-Nimbus”, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai.

Group shows
2017 The Bombay Art Society ( 1888 – 2016 ) History @ Voyage. At National Gallery
of Modern Art. Mumbai.
2013 “Flag March” Art Gate Gallery,Mumbai.
2013 “ Oozing” Tulika Art Gallery,Mumbai.
2013 Curated by Benjamin covo at New Castle Art Gallery kochi.
2012 “J.J.90's The Time 0f Change Show. “ at Sir. J.J.School of Art, Mumbai
2011 “MELANGE” a collection of contemporary art , organized pundole Art Gallery, at Museum
Art Gallery Mumbai.
2009 “Pandoa’s Box “ Ga...