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New York artist Reuben Sinha, whose large-scale oil paintings tend toward figurative compositions with vivid, often unexpected colors, has also been creating stained-glass pieces for several years. His most recent piece is a large commission for a private client in New York that transforms a small, interior room into a lush atmospheric space. The client wanted a large stained-glass work to suggest a sense of light and color in front of window that opened onto an air shaft. Sinha's creation is a luminous, richly colored 93x93 inch triptych depicting a lush forest scene that brings a sense of nature into this urban apartment. While serving a functional purpose, the work, which combines hundreds of individual pieces of stained glass in a variety of textures and colors, also draws the viewer into an almost magical landscape. While this piece draws, perhaps, on the sense of color and texture that Sinha absorbed on childhood visits to India with his family, another recent piece is much more spare and abstract. Called "Circles by Hamoo", it was created for the Harlem brownstone that Sinha and his wife recently renovated. Sinha based it on a drawing done by his nephew, and its simple lines and shapes and use of primary colors, bring to mind an Alexander Calder mobile in both its subtle sense of balance and its playful quality. Click on the images to see more work... |
22" X 40 ", 2006 |
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