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The Artists of the House · 10

Jacob Jebaraj

Known for abstractions built from layered serigraphs, shaped with a squeegee rather than a brush.

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Medium
Serigraphy, Painting, Installation, Sculpture, Upcycled architecture

Jacob Jebaraj is a contemporary artist associated with the Cholamandal Artists' Village near Chennai. He works in serigraphy and large mixed-media pieces, and his prints look at how news and information are seen, alongside a long-running attention to nature: leaves, bark, rust and stain.

A life, dated

AB / TIMELINE

  1. 1978

    Born in Chennai, according to one profile.

  2. 2007

    Began working with differently abled children, mentoring them in art.

  3. 2023

    Took part in the group show Visual Fables at Art Houz, Bangalore, in December.

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Works from the house

AB / WORKS

Kiran, The Buddha between flame and cloud: a square painting of a grey Buddha head and shoulders beside a red panel, with a glowing flame at the lower left and dark storm clouds above.

Devotional & narrative

The Buddha between flame and cloud

Kiran. A calm, closed-eyed Buddha, painted in cool greys with a finely modelled head of tight curls, sits at the right in an olive-gold panel.

M. F. Husain, Women dancing before a yellow moon: a framed print of five women with raised arms dancing before a great yellow moon over water, with a boat, two small elephants and a tree hung with cloths.

Figures & portraits

Women dancing before a yellow moon

M. F. Husain. Five women, drawn in loose, flowing black line and washes of grey, dance with raised arms before a great yellow moon on a dark ground.

A square Kalamkari style painting: an ivory white face with a vaishnava tilak and a flat orange disc at the mouth, with Shri Hanuman Ji figures with folded hands climbing the right edge beside a gold mandala.

Devotional & narrative

Hanuman and the rising sun

Ramesh Gorjala. An ivory face, almost bare, takes the centre; a flat orange disc is held at its mouth and reads at once as the sun.

Kiran, A flame in the blue hour: a square abstract in deep ultramarine over a black ground, with a glowing white-and-gold flame form at the lower left and a small red-orange panel at the lower right.

Abstract

A flame in the blue hour

Kiran. A square canvas held in deep ultramarine over a heavy black ground.

All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones