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Name: Srinath Vadapalli Brief Introduction: Srinath Vadapalli’s art practice has an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary focus. In this regard, he has explored various disciplines of visual art in his career so far. Further, through his teaching career at educational institutions in France, Africa and the US, he has contributed to the pedagogy of various visual art disciplines. With a BFA in Painting, MFA in Printmaking, from India and France, and a doctoral degree in New Media arts, his artistic exploration spans drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and new-media installations as well as documentary film making. Artistic Approach: His concepts emerge out of personal experiences based on circumstances and living environments. Experiential aspects in his works have seen many shifts due to his travels and relocations. What has remained recurrent, however, is a penchant for capturing and expression of his nuanced thoughts. His drawings, paintings and prints bring such transitory, yet intense play of emotions via figurative or semi-abstract imagery. He often applies visual as well as literary tools of metaphor and verbal pun in his aesthetic approach owing to his familial as well as cultural background in literature and music, which have provided immense inspiration. Because, his creative method involves tapping of and translation of unconscious reflexes in a conscious approach, it is often rendered in rapid application of colors in impasto or thick layers. This way of rendering images is reflected in the severe gradations of his drawings. Paper pulp prints are also developed with as much spontaneity as the paintings. Intrigued by the transient nature of things or the passage of objects and beings in time and space in fleeting instances, he tries to seize and bring back to fore via a process of identification so as to re-visit the past or re-live those memories. His photographs and video installations incorporate these tendencies. Indian, African villages and the underprivileged people including artisans, children, anonymous travellers and others therefore, feature in my analog and digital photographs as well as video installations.

Early Life and Career:

Srinath Vadapalli, is an American artist of Indian origin living and working in New Jersey, USA. He was born into a family where interest in literature, music and arts were part of the daily life. His passion for art initially brought him to Hyderabad to study Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the College of Fine Arts, JNTU (now JNAFAU) in the early 1990s. He graduated with a major in Painting in 1996. His fascination for printmaking media prompted him to pursue Master’s Degree in Printmaking (Graphics) (1998) from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, with a scholarship from Potti Sriramulu Telugu University and the prestigious Indian Ministry of Culture’s National Scholarship. Due to his outstanding performance in printmaking he was selected for the French Merit Scholarship for advanced studies in print media as a visiting research scholar at the Ecole des Superieur Beaux Arts, France.

In Paris and London he had the opportunity to not only learn and explore contemporary art practices, but was also invited to exhibit at the Artotheque, France. In the years that ensued, he continued his art practice and taught art in India and North East Africa (2000-2003). Later, I was invited to initiate the graduate teaching program in printmaking at Ecole des Superieur Beaux Arts, Reunion, France (2003). This was closely followed by another art project in Italy (2005). After continuing to live and practice in India until 2011 he moved to Ethiopia and joined as faculty at Addis Ababa Universiy to teach documentary film making and broadcast journalism. He obtained a practice based Doctoral Degree in New Media art from Pacific University (2015). He moved to the US in 2015 and has been practicing and teaching visual art.

Exhibitions and Awards:

His works have featured in several group and solo presentations internationally right from 1997 to the present. Here are a few significant international shows:‘A Mannequinn’sTravelogue’ Mexico, Addis Ababa, July, 2013; MOCA, Brooklyn, 2011 (Online Show); Art Heritage Photography Shows- London-New York- New Delhi- 2009 ; HAG Art show, Munich, Germany, 2007; Windows Without Walls- Dot Com Series, Mer Rouge’ Paris / lyon, France, 2004; House Gallery, London, 2004; ‘Artefacts’ Eritro-German- Gallery, Asmara. Dec 2002; ‘Images & Impressions-II’-Casa degli Italiani, Jan 2002; Canet de Mar,Barcelona, Spain. 1999-2000; alerie l’tang d’art,bages, France. 1999; Wingfields Art Festival, England, 1999; Culture centre, Paris, 1999; Miniprint show, Japan, 1998; International print Biennalle, Kanagawa. 1998. His works are in various permanent public collections including: Artotheque, France; Kanagawa, Japan; Jagdish & Kamala Mittal Museum, India; H.S.B.C.Bank; German Embassy office, Asmara; U.S.Aids office, Asmara; also, in many private collections in Europe and India and in USA.

Honors in appreciation of his work include: Membership in The association difusora obragrafica internacioanal print club, Spain; International Award / Silver medal in designing the Web page art majeur.com; Channel Six – photography award, 2009. Mid-Atlantic Award for Individual Artist in Printmaking, NJ-2024

Publications:

Apart from various newspaper exhibition reviews and few recent publications include: Visual Ensemble, International Exhibition Catalogue, 2010; “Visual Art of the Telugu Diaspora: Cases from the Modern”, Prof.P. Chenna Reddy Ed., Telugu Diaspora Through the Ages, B.R. Publishing House, New Delhi, 2016 pp 383-398. A recent article from an online business line of The Hindu, a leading Indian news magazine is: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/art-in-the-pandemic-srinath-vadapalli/article34922232.ece