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About Jyoti Hattarki (1972)

Born in 1973 in Gulbarga, Karnataka, Jyoti Hattarki’s work is an exploration in portraiture. Hattarki employs a figurative discourse in her studies of individuals and couples. Single men, women and amorous couples form the basis of her creations. Her figures are at once type-characters and individuated protagonists, representative of a certain region and yet exclusive personalities bestowed with immortality on canvas. Hattarki’s acrylics on canvas are a celebration of colour,...