Three by Three: Guest Artists in Focus
QUESTION 2. Your color fields are bold, intentional, and psychologically charged. How do you decide when a color represents mood, narrative, or identity — and when it becomes an abstract element with no literal meaning at all?
ANSWER 2. The color holds a strong core feeling in my pieces, I use bold colors to maximize the strength of difference between forms. The collision of vibrancy, intensity and inflection, heighten certain areas of my pieces. Yellows and whites break up areas of strong intensity, while reds and blues deepen the depth of the composition. I’ve always been drawn to strong color, especially how the primary colors stand side by side, each one taking space, unapologetic and unwavering.
I like to think of color having a conversation with the forms in my work.
Ishita Banerjee
Contemporary Cubist Painter - mixed media and acrylics
BIO: International award winning, Contemporary Cubist artist in Montreal Canada, Ishita Banerjee, uses bold color, angular geometry & human forms to highlight the confluence of our shared human experiences. In her practice of over 3 decades, she blends Cubism with mid century modern aesthetics, drawing inspiration from her roots to create contemporary neo-Cubist art she calls “Mad-Men Modern”
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QUESTION 3. The rhythm of your line work creates an architectural sense of containment, almost like emotional “housing.” What role does structure play in your work — is it protection, boundary, harmony, or tension-management?
ANSWER 3. I love the geometric shape and have been fascinated by how they intersect. Lines create constructs, both literally and figurative. The shapes hold weight, they have a foundation on which the painting rises. My compositions use up the entire space, the negative and positive spaces collide, creating tension, juxtaposition and allowing different perspectives to flow through it.
QUESTION 1. Your compositions seem to bend reality into emotional geometry rather than literal likeness. When you break a form into curves, angles, and layered planes, what feeling or message guides how far you allow the distortion to go?
ANSWER 1. I like to keep a semblance of familiarity within the distortions of my work. Especially since I work with human faces. The planes and angles of my composition symbolize an intersection of shape, form and the abstract, almost where the physical meets the emotional. To feel it emotionally, I like to push the distortion to its edge so that it remains a concept yet feels familiar in its fundamental structure.
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