Shivani Dugar was born in Calcutta in 1979, and grew up in Bangalore, India. After completing her degree in finance at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. she decided to pursue her lifelong dream and enrolled at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York for a Masters in Fine Art Degree. She has had successful solo & group exhibitions in US and abroad. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two children. The abstract paintings created by Shivani bring out the multitude of textures found in nature as it provides different ambiances at various times of the day. Her works carry an element of nature which is visible through a wash of tones and strong mark-making which she had mastered via the technique of Printmaking. Shivani has explored this theme in a myriad of ways to arrive at her images. She is able to create a sense of light, movement and depth in each image by interlocking and layering her marks, allowing the viewer to travel through each piece. They lead the mind to wander into the realm of nature with a sense of obscurity and ambiguity, and then let the viewers think about it and draw their own conclusions. “My paintings are abounding with vestiges of memory and experience and my search for the unseen is implanted in every layer….” – Shivani Dugar