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Ramesh Gorjala

b. 1979 · Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh

Artist trained in the Srikalahasti Kalamkari tradition who paints Indian deities and legends as continuous narratives.

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Born
1979
Birthplace
Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh
Medium
Kalamkari, Acrylic on canvas, Acrylic on handmade paper

Ramesh Gorjala is a contemporary painter from Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh who works in the Kalamkari tradition. Sources give his birth year as 1979 and describe his family as weavers. He took his first training from his uncle, the Kalamkari artist Balaji Theretham, and later earned a BFA and an MFA at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad.

He works in the hand drawn Srikalahasti style, painting Hindu gods and goddesses drawn from mythology, with detailed patterns and a palette of gold, red and green. He moved from vegetable dyes to acrylics on canvas and handwoven paper. He received the Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary Memorial Award in 2000 and a State Award from the Andhra Pradesh Crafts Council in 2002.

A life, dated

AB / TIMELINE

  1. 1979

    Born in Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, into a family of weavers.

  2. 2000

    Received the Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary Memorial Award from the Victoria Technical Institute, Chennai.

  3. 2002

    Received the State Award from the Andhra Pradesh Crafts Council.

  4. 2007

    Held the solo show Embracing Modernity at Mon Art Gallerie, Kolkata.

  5. 2010

    Held the solo show Mythological Metaphor at Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi.

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7 works by Ramesh Gorjala

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Kiran, A seated winged creature before a field of ink: a square abstract of white, black and saffron, with a pale seated winged creature and a red crest set against a deep brown-black mass.

Abstract

A seated winged creature before a field of ink

Kiran. A square canvas divided into fields: bare white at the top, a great brown-black mass of ink-like paint in the centre, and a block of saffron orange below and to the right.

Thota Vaikuntam, Telangana lady, 2004: a seated woman with an olive-green face, red bindi, stacked gold bangles and a black sari dotted with white, on a cream ground.

Figures & portraits

Telangana lady

Thota Vaikuntam. A woman of Telangana sits close to the front of the picture, drawn in flat, confident shapes.

A square Kalamkari style painting: a teal green face in profile with a white tilak; inside it Shri Krishna Ji plays the flute among cows, with devotees at upper left, a white paisley panel and a brown feather panel at the right.

Devotional & narrative

Krishna in profile, turquoise and gold

Ramesh Gorjala. A teal green face in profile, the eye lit with gold, rises beside a white paisley panel and a brown feather panel.

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.

All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones