![]() The point of focus moves from such solitary structures to a multitude of imagery and patterns - street scenes in Calcutta, traffic snarls, stock images of trains crossing a river bridge, the bylanes of Benares. A kantha-stitch sample is the simpler doorway to this complex world, one of the artist’s earliest works (“1988,” she confirms). Integrating needlework, stitches and embroidery onto the canvas, these are essentially mixed-media works where lines and forms merge into unique structural dialogues brought about by her use of needle and thread along with paint. The unconventional is what visitors would experience at Through The Eye Of A Needle, Shreyasi’s debut solo show, opening on Friday evening at CIMA Gallery. ![]() “As he zeroed in on a papercut, he asked me to run to the kitchen and get some onion skin, to be used as foliage in the work,” recalls the 49-year-old artist and teacher of art history, “That was my earliest brush with using unconventional material.” In her earliest memory, Shreyasi Chatterjee remembers assisting her father - a doctor by profession and a self-trained artist by choice - on a collage. Shreyasi Chatterjee at CIMA Gallery on Thursday.
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