B.V. Suresh

B.V. Suresh was born in 1960 in Bangalore, Karnataka. Trained at the Ken School of Arts in Bangalore, the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda and the Royal College Of Art, London, his work has always been characterised by the personal and the confessional. Working with dense overlapping layers of paint, creating vast ambiguous areas, he expresses the universality that binds the experience of suffering, transcending geographical and cultural constraints.Free-standing or hung, his work bears the familiar premonition of oppression and guilt: the viewer becomes one more component, frozen in passivity, an unwilling partner in crime, not allowed the release or glory of martyrdom, but only eternal pain. He first moved away from a predominantly painterly language in the late nineties, shifting to mixed media assemblages held together within a framework resembling domestic furniture. B.V. Suresh lives and works in Baroda.