Reflection: Plate 42

Satish Joshi

Satish Joshi's paintings are created on canvas or wood using a combination of acrylic modeling paste, gesso, and oil paints, through which he creates surfaces with a three-dimensional appearance. His own personal style of abstract expressionism began with the Light Series, which treated his subjects of light, color and texture as abstract elements of the natural world. His large-scale canvases of the 1980s, which sent the viewer flying outward into the vastness of the cosmos, have gradually given way in the 1990s and 2000s to a more intimate realization of the natural world. Working on shaped palettes of wood, Satish gives the viewer the illusion of being inside, gazing outward through a window, while simultaneously sharing his inner private vision. He has explored other elements of the natural landscape in his Sunflower series, his abstract landscapes of the American southwest, and his Reflections paintings of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Find more of his work at www.satishjoshi.com.