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Natvar Bhavsar (Indian, b. 1934)
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Biography
1934 Born in Gujarat, India
1954-57 Chanasma High School, Chanasma, Gujarat, India, Art Teacher
1957-62 Seth C.N. School of Fine Arts, Amdavad, Gujarat India, Art Instructor
1958 Bombay State Higher Art Examination, Bombay, India
1959 Bombay State Higher Art Examination, Bombay, India
1960 B.A. Gujarat University, Amdavad, India
1965 M.F.A., Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, PA
1965-66 John D. Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship, New York, NY
1967-69 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Art Instructor
1975-76 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
1980, 1983 Invited as Participant in Executive's Seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Aspen, Colorado, CO
1987 Vishva Gurjari, Gujarat, India
2000, 2002 Invited as Participant as Cultural Leader to the World Economic Forums in Davos, Switzerland and New York, NY

 

Natvar Bhavsar's pigment paintings of lambent, voluminous color have a transcendent, pulsating effect. Bhavsar's monumental works are created using dry, sifted pigment, released onto the canvas in patterns that parallel the movements of the artist's body as he works. Layer upon layer of pigments are transformed into compositions that have an effect not unlike staring into a clear night sky. Born in Gujarat, India in 1934, Bhavsar moved to the US in the early 1960's, where he became an influential member of the New York School of Colorists- he is in fact credited with easternizing the Color Field language through his use of thrown and sifted pigment. Natvar Bhavsar's paintings are in more than 800 public and private collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts.