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For Pavani, her involvement with the arts started at the age of 5, when she was introduced to Classical Indian dance and music. They still remain an integral part of her life. Born and educated in Bangalore, India, she discovered her love of drawing and painting and was largely self-taught. In 1997, she enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco.

Clothes line, 2004

During the four-year course at the Academy, she majored in Painting and also studied Art History, Sculpture and Printmaking. Since graduating in 2002, her work has been a catalog of her memories of India. The series was first featured in a show in April 2003 at the Academy gallery in San Francisco. The show comprised of representational paintings of various commonplace things that find beauty in her interpretations.

Color choices are a reflection of an individual’s personal and cultural sensibilities. We are conditioned to instinctively lean towards some colors and opposed to certain others. Each personal color ‘palette’ is as unique as our personalities. Pavani strives to explore the effects her individual palette stimulates. With constant resolve towards simplicity, her aim is to have her work understood without undue intellectualism involved, effortlessly, so that the ‘feel’ is undiluted and comprehensible. Each work can have a story of its own, to be felt and known by anyone. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay area, she works out of her home studio, taking on commissions, and teaching children at the India Community Center, Milpitas.

Flower Market Gossip, 2004

Dewy Brilliance, 2004

Excerpts from Rave Magazine - Oct 2002 issue

Written by-K.P. Krishnamoorthy
A condensation of the essence of things. Like drawing lines from various points, to meet at one. Which then contains the distilled, concentrated spirit, the quintessence of the variety, the multitude of details that comprise life. Saying everything, without verbalizing a single word… while yet managing to surpass the medium of communication to such an extent that the medium is hardly noticed, except by those who know what it actually takes. To effect the disappearance of the glass on the window, to reach through, to meld into one…

"It takes a certain kind of person to manage that. You need to see deeper than the rest – find beauty where others see the coarse, workaday existence. Find the joy in sorrow, contentment in yearning, and fulfillment in the way the sun dapples over the ground you walk on every day, burning your feet. The joy of simple sensations, observations, contexts."

"Flower Market' depicts a typical Indian setting – a woman choosing flowers at the market. A simple concept in itself – the vibrancy of the colors, a simple thing like the saree worn by the woman… you can practically see the picture moving. Can you hear the hustle of the multitudes behind you? Smell the extravagant aroma of fresh flowers? The delicate mix of light and shade – the depth is so apparent, you feel you have to refocus your eyes when looking at the building behind the hanging garlands…"

Veena Magazine UK - Article and Review