Uma Shankar Pathak
My canvases present a concrete vista of the urbanity synchronised with the nuances of rural live. They affirmatively speak about the spontaneous and restless acts of the migrated day-labourers. The imageries further tend in mirroring the rigidity and flexibility of the urban-rural life suggested through the constructive abstract forms. The street lights, zebra, zebra-crossing etc acts as a metaphor of such urban rigidity as opposed to the plough-share, mostly seen in my earlier paintings as a central object or platform projecting the concept of ‘nothing in everything’ .Here I quoted ‘nothing in everything’, in order to emphasize the very nature of men’s vast expectation that- he runs after everything and when he gets everything, he is satisfied by nothing.
Pathak completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from College of Art & Crafts, Patna, 2007 and Master of Fine Arts from Pracheen Kala Kendra Chandigarh 2009