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'''Sheila Makhijani''' (born 1962) is a New Delhi-based artist.<br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
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Born in New Delhi, Makhijani attended [[College of Art, Delhi]], where she completed a master's degree in Arts degree. In 1993, she studied at [[Kanazawa College of Art|Kanazawa Bijutsu Kogei Daigaku]], or [[Kanazawa College of Art]], in [[Kanazawa, Ishikawa|Kanazawa]], Japan, and she has since participated in a number of workshops and art festivals, including the Khoj International Artists Workshop in both 1998 and 2001, and the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial, in 2012.<ref>[https://www.talwargallery.com/ Talwar Gallery, ''(desi)re'', New York: Talwar Gallery, 2005.]</ref> Her works have been exhibited internationally in the [[Netherlands]], [[India]], and Australia, including at [[Museum of Modern Art|Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)]] in New York, [[Queensland Art Gallery]] in [[Brisbane]], Australia, [[Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts]] in [[Perth]], Australia, and Talwar Gallery, which currently represents the artist, in New York and in New Delhi. Makhijani currently lives and works in New Delhi.<br />
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== Work ==<br />
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Makhijani's work spans a variety of media. Although her drawings have been said to be her "primary engagement," she has works regularly in a range of materials, including painting, gouache, mixed-media, collage, and sculpture.<ref>Roobina Karode, "The Secret Life of Sheila Makhijani," ''Art India'', October–December 1999</ref><ref>"Complex Visuality", ''Art India'', August 2003.</ref> Makhijani's artistic practice, in fact, blurs the lines between media; she seems to carve space onto her canvases and within her paintings, which result from a process of accretion and erasure, while her sculptures often read as three-dimensional drawings.<ref>Valerie Gladstone, "Sheila Makhijani", ''Art News'', February 2006.</ref><ref name="Restlesstangles">"Restless tangles," ''Art India'', 2007</ref> The inclusion of Makhijani's piece "Take a leap" in the [[Museum of Modern Art|Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)]]'s 2010 exhibition, ''On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century'', calls attention to this intermingling of dimensions in Makhijani's oeuvre; the work, which is a kind of collage of drawings on paper, stitched together with thread, concretises the act and the space of drawing.<ref>[[Catherine de Zegher]], "A Century Under the Sign of Line: Drawing and Its Extension (1910–2010)", in ''On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century'', New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010.</ref><ref>Meera Mezenes, ''Living Off the Grid'', New Delhi: Anant Art, 2009.</ref> Her paintings and gouaches, often vividly coloured, feature webs of undulating, interweaving lines that both question and transgress the very boundaries they create.<ref>Meera Menezes, ''Construction/Deconstruction,'' February 2007.</ref> Although almost exclusively non-figurative, Makhijani's works possess an energy and movement that seem to pulsate with life; her lines have been called “moving spirits refusing to be tied down,” forms that “take on a life of their own,” full of “untrammeled glee.”<ref name="Restlesstangles" /><ref>Deepak Talwar, “Forward,” ''BLIP!'', New York: Talwar Gallery, 2005.</ref><ref>Meera Menezes, “Webs of the mind”, ''BLIP!'', New York: Talwar Gallery, 2005.</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202303/sheila-makhijani-90186 Artforum, "Sheila Makhijani," March 2023.]<br />
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