FACES AND MASKS

Samarsingh Thakur’s preoccupation with the female form is more of a formal exercise in color line and surface decoration, rather than an inquiry into the male-female dynamic that is played out in everyday life. His masked mannequins emerge almost like paper cutouts against a textured monochrome surface that is punctuated by serrated dots and a few red and blue fulcrum lines that often cut across in verticals and horizontals. Each canvas is a soft symphony of color and like that ends in a throbbing crescendo.