A guide to the historical Artbrush gallery
Painting, Street Life and Digital Experiments
Artbrush's historical painting gallery brought together still life, townscapes, interiors, watercolours and digital prints. In its introduction, Anjali Arora described a practice influenced by nature, French Impressionism and the activity of city streets.
Between cities
Ahmedabad and New York figure in the artist's account of her surroundings. New York's street noise, traffic and tall buildings also prompted memories of Mumbai. These connections place the gallery's city subjects within a personal geography of movement and recollection.
The watercolour collection offers another scale of attention: coloured glass, flowers, woods and a room at the Anderson Center. Follow its guide for details from the original captions.
From painting to interaction
The gallery introduction also pointed readers toward Arora's design work and studies at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. On Artbrush, painting sat alongside web art, information design and experiments with moving images.
My Two Worlds makes that connection particularly clear: the 3D city project uses a painting as a source of textures. The imagined museum in Welcome to the Met approaches painting from another direction, giving its pictures voices after closing time.