Jeet Aulakh Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Born and raised in India, Canadian Contemporary artist Jeet Aulakh participates in a rich and varied cultural and social history in which notions of humanity are indivisible into secular and spiritual realms. A central theme in Indian philosophy is the ultimate release from the subservience of life and all its contingent aspects: to be detached from life by the realization of the “absolute supreme principle”, which is itself beyond definition. The goal is to achieve, through inner realization, a reintegration into this indefinable absolute realm. Aulakh ably depicts this other abstract realm through the use of floating circles of saturated colour seemingly floating in the dark to evoke cosmic cycles in which human history and individual identity is peripheral. The radiant world of the enraptured, disembodied soul is undiminished by this enveloping cosmic darkness. His images suggest a cosmic egg from which the manifest world is born. Striving to reveal through geometric abstraction what remains incomprehensible, Aulakh, through his use of glowing circles of colour, gives form to what is formless and cohesive totality to individual consciousness. Aulakh’s celestial circles are irreducible: they are void of narrative or symbolic content. They suggest the way in which the distinctions between varying avenues to spiritual enlightenment are illusory despite separate names and forms. His is a minimalist and conceptual approach to spirituality informed by the rich history of Indian culture in which one finds countless references to cosmic consciousness. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries. He is represented by Rupert Young Toronto. Select Past Solo Exhibits: Arts Council Gallery, Windsor - Canada Gibson Art Gallery, Amherstburg – Canada Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton – Canada Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London – UK Taras Shevchenko Museum, Toronto – Canada Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor – Canada IAFA Art Gallery, Amritsar - India Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga - Canada Punjab Lalit Kala, Chandigarh - India Sutlej Art Gallery, New Delhi - India Banasar Art Gallery, Patiala - India Select Past Group Exhibits: Thames Art Gallery, Chatham – Canada Icon Art Gallery, Hyderabad – India Arts Council Gallery, Windsor – Canada Gallery Streetsville, Mississauga – Canada Museum London, London – Canada Common Ground Gallery, Windsor – Canada Grand Salon Des Arts, California – USA Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar – India The Gallery, Windsor – Canada Space for New Art, Brampton – Canada Art knows No Borders, Los Angeles – USA World Art Expo, California – USA Living Arts Centre, Mississauga – Canada Art at the Castle, Toronto – Canada Russian Art Centre, New Delhi – India Lennox Contemporary, Toronto – Canada University of Saskatchewan – Canada Windsor Printmakers Gallery, Windsor – Canada Energy Art Gallery, Toronto - Canada Parijat Art Gallery, New Delhi – India Praxis Art Gallery, Toronto – Canada Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton – Canada South Delta Art Gallery, South Delta – Canada Laluque Atelier Gallery, Toronto – Canada Struts Art Gallery, Sackville – Canada Kiwanis Longhouse Gallery – Canada Arts Council Gallery, Everett – USA Punjab Agricultural University – India Bibliography: “Sounds and Meditation” – Sandu Sindile, Curator “Painter of Inner World and Cosmos” – Keshav Malik, Art Critic “Spiritual Contemplation and Cosmic Reality” – Seema Bhalla, Art Historian “High Heavens of Hope” – RS Yadav, Art Critic “Metaphysical Abstract” – Dr Avani Rao, Art Historian and Curator “Poet and Artist in Constant Journey” – Dr Surjit Patar, Writer “Strength of Colors” – Prof Marie Prociw “Craving for the Unknown” – Prof NS Tasneem “Language of Colors” – Balraj Cheema, Writer “Mystical Abstract” – Emma Cook, Curator “Sound of Silence” – Gurdev Chauhan, Critic and Writer “Color Field and Spirituality” – R Sharma, Art Critic “Mysteries and Magnetism” – Ashley Goodfellow “Sacred Geometrics” – Radhika Chhotai “Art of Tantra and Spirituality” – Deccan Chronicle “Yoga Art...

Born and raised in India, Canadian Contemporary artist Jeet Aulakh participates in a rich and varied cultural and social history in which notions of humanity are indivisible into secular and spiritual realms. A central theme in Indian philosophy is the ultimate release from the subservience of life and all its contingent aspects: to be detached from life by the realization of the “absolute supreme principle”, which is itself beyond definition. The goal is to achieve, through inner realization, a reintegration into this indefinable absolute realm. Aulakh ably depicts this other abstract realm through the use of floating circles of saturated colour seemingly floating in the dark to evoke cosmic cycles in which human history and individual identity is peripheral. The radiant world of the enraptured, disembodied soul is undiminished by this enveloping cosmic darkness. His images suggest a cosmic egg from which the manifest world is born. Striving to reveal through geometric abstraction what remains incomprehensible, Aulakh, through his use of glowing circles of colour, gives form to what is formless and cohesive totality to individual consciousness. Aulakh’s celestial circles are irreducible: they are void of narrative or symbolic content. They suggest the way in which the distinctions between varying avenues to spiritual enlightenment are illusory despite separate names and forms. His is a minimalist and conceptual approach to spirituality informed by the rich history of Indian culture in which one finds countless references to cosmic consciousness. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries. He is represented by Rupert Young Toronto. Select Past Solo Exhibits: Arts Council Gallery, Windsor - Canada Gibson Art Gallery, Amherstburg – Canada Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton – Canada Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London – UK Taras Shevchenko Museum, Toronto – Canada Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor – Canada IAFA Art Gallery, Amritsar - India Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga - Canada Punjab Lalit Kala, Chandigarh - India Sutlej Art Gallery, New Delhi - India Banasar Art Gallery, Patiala - India Select Past Group Exhibits: Thames Art Gallery, Chatham – Canada Icon Art Gallery, Hyderabad – India Arts Council Gallery, Windsor – Canada Gallery Streetsville, Mississauga – Canada Museum London, London – Canada Common Ground Gallery, Windsor – Canada Grand Salon Des Arts, California – USA Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar – India The Gallery, Windsor – Canada Space for New Art, Brampton – Canada Art knows No Borders, Los Angeles – USA World Art Expo, California – USA Living Arts Centre, Mississauga – Canada Art at the Castle, Toronto – Canada Russian Art Centre, New Delhi – India Lennox Contemporary, Toronto – Canada University of Saskatchewan – Canada Windsor Printmakers Gallery, Windsor – Canada Energy Art Gallery, Toronto - Canada Parijat Art Gallery, New Delhi – India Praxis Art Gallery, Toronto – Canada Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton – Canada South Delta Art Gallery, South Delta – Canada Laluque Atelier Gallery, Toronto – Canada Struts Art Gallery, Sackville – Canada Kiwanis Longhouse Gallery – Canada Arts Council Gallery, Everett – USA Punjab Agricultural University – India Bibliography: “Sounds and Meditation” – Sandu Sindile, Curator “Painter of Inner World and Cosmos” – Keshav Malik, Art Critic “Spiritual Contemplation and Cosmic Reality” – Seema Bhalla, Art Historian “High Heavens of Hope” – RS Yadav, Art Critic “Metaphysical Abstract” – Dr Avani Rao, Art Historian and Curator “Poet and Artist in Constant Journey” – Dr Surjit Patar, Writer “Strength of Colors” – Prof Marie Prociw “Craving for the Unknown” – Prof NS Tasneem “Language of Colors” – Balraj Cheema, Writer “Mystical Abstract” – Emma Cook, Curator “Sound of Silence” – Gurdev Chauhan, Critic and Writer “Color Field and Spirituality” – R Sharma, Art Critic “Mysteries and Magnetism” – Ashley Goodfellow “Sacred Geometrics” – Radhika Chhotai “Art of Tantra and Spirituality” – Deccan Chronicle “Yoga Art...

Born and raised in India, Canadian Contemporary artist Jeet Aulakh participates in a rich and varied cultural and social history in which notions of humanity are indivisible into sec...