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Avantika Bawa

Avantika Bawa is an artist, curator, and educator living and working in Portland, Oregon, and often resides in her hometown, New Delhi, India. Bawa’s recent iterations of experiments with construction scaffolds which span several formats were featured in a solo exhibition at University Galleries in 2023, simplenothingsimplesomething .

Background

MFA, Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois State University (1998)

BFA, Painting, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India (1995)

Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington (since 2010)

Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts – The Ford Family Foundation (2018)

Regional Arts and Culture Council – Project Grant, Portland, Oregon (2018)

Normal Editions Projects

Avantika Bawa participated in a collaborative project with Normal Editions Workshop with partial sponsorship from University Galleries during a short-term residency August 28 – September 1, 2023.

Avantika Bawa

Avantika Bawa at Normal Editions, September 2023.

Resources

Artist website

Washington University Fine Arts

Prints from Normal Editions

GB 01, Line

GB 01, Line

Avantika Bawa
three-color lithograph
15" x 21"
edition: 20 numbered impressions
copyright 2024
N.E.W. work #23-102

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Available for sale

$800.00

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GB 01, Mass

GB 01, Mass

Avantika Bawa
three-color lithograph
15" x 21"
edition: 20 numbered impressions
copyright 2024
N.E.W. work #23-103

View in Detail on Flickr

Available for sale

$800.00

Purchase Print
GB 02, Line

GB 02, Line

Avantika Bawa
three-color lithograph
15" x 21"
edition: 20 numbered impressions
copyright 2024
N.E.W. work #23-104

View in Detail on Flickr

Available for sale

$800.00

Purchase Print
GB 02, Mass

GB 02, Mass

Avantika Bawa
three-color lithograph
15" x 21"
edition: 20 numbered impressions
copyright 2024
N.E.W. work #23-105

View in Detail on Flickr

Available for sale

$800.00

Purchase Print

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Collaboration with Avantika Bawa

Avantika Bawa drawing

Avantika Bawa drawing

Avantika Bawa drawing on a mylar during the collaboration with Normal Editions

Observers's conversation with visiting artist

Observers's conversation with visiting artist

Tess Murphy discussing the collaborative project with Avantika Bawa

Avantika Bawa uses light table while drawing

Avantika Bawa uses light table while drawing

Avantika Bawa uses the light table while drawing to preview the way the UV exposure unit will work with the drawing on the photo lithography plate

ink mixing during collaboration

ink mixing during collaboration

Research with ink mixing during the collaboration with Avantika Bawa

ink draw-downs

ink draw-downs

notes and ink draw-downs to record the color mixing research for Avantika Bawa's editions

photo litho plate in developer

photo litho plate in developer

A positive photo lithography plate for Avantika Bawa's collaboration in the developer solution

Morgan Price working the ink roller

Morgan Price working the ink roller

Morgan Price working the ink roller with the bronzy-silver color ink for the Avantika Bawa collaboration

Avantika Bawa sponging the plate

Avantika Bawa sponging the plate

Avantika Bawa sponging the photo-litho plate at the press during color trial proofing session

Avantika Bawa lifts the first proof on good paper

Avantika Bawa lifts the first proof on good paper

Avantika Bawa lifts the first proof on Black BFK Rives paper during the color trial proofing session

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price at the litho press

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price at the litho press

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price working the motorized lithography press during the color trial proofing session

Key layer printed

Key layer printed

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price with the first impression with the key drawing's layer printed over the solid bronzy-silver

good results during color trial proofing

good results during color trial proofing

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price display the good impression resulting from the color trial proofing session

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price

Avantika Bawa and Morgan Price

Visiting Artist and Collaborative printer during color trial proofing

Four "Right to Print" impressions

Four "Right to Print" impressions

Avantika Bawa with the four signed "Right to Print" impressions

agreement records

agreement records

Avantika Bawa and Veda Rives Aukerman fill out documentation of the verbal agreement about how many to print in the editions for the four "Right to Print" impressions

Sarah Smelser speaks with her class about the project

Sarah Smelser speaks with her class about the project

Sarah Smelser speaks with her class about collaborative printing in general and the Avantika Bawa project details

students visit NEW to see Avantika Bawa's prints

students visit NEW to see Avantika Bawa's prints

Students visit Normal Editions to learn more about the Avantika Bawa visit and collaboration with resulting prints

IACA Acknowledgement and Copyright

Normal Editions Workshop acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

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