New Paintings by Ramkrishna Behera August 13, 2009

New Paintings by Ramkrishna Behera. The paintings of Ramakrishna Behera are most certainly landscapes and are inspired by real places: the caves of Ajanta, the mountains and monasteries of Ladakh, the countryside of Orissa and even the interior of the artists home. Yet the works employ distorted perspectives and fold in images of outer space to become something more like psychological maps or hallucinatory visions. While their palette of colors is realistic, their spaces certainly are not. The surfaces of his paintings are buttery and their details are seemingly coaxed spontaneously from their making. Ramakrishna Behera was born in Orissa in 1977 and lives and works in Bhubaneswar. He is a self-taught painter and holds a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He has previously participated in group exhibitions in Bhubaneswar, Kolkata and New Delhi.

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