Showing posts with label Indian artist to be awarded in New York. Show all posts
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Saturday, 7 September 2024

Indian artist to be awarded in New York

Indian artist to be awarded in New York. Pastel Society of America has announced the precious Flora B.Giffuni Memorial award to the Indian artist Parag Borse for the year 2024. This award will be given to him in a prestigious ceremony on 22nd September in Manhattan, New York.

Pastel society of America is an organization which was founded in 1972 by Flora B.Giffini. It is the oldest society in America. It is largely responsible for the current renaissance of pastels in American Art. The society's annual exhibition at the national Art club in New York is the Premier event for artists worldwide. PSA encourages artistic advancement through prestigious awards, both monetary and material distributed during its annual exhibition to pastel artists showing technical acumen and creative use of test techniques.

Parag Borse

This is the 52nd year of their annual exhibition called "Enduring brilliance. This year pastel society of America has received 1155 submissions from all over the world and they have selected only 125 works for inclusion. Parag Borse’s, painting titled ‘’A turban Gaze’’, is the painting which has been selected for this precious award by the juror of awards was Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator of The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The painting will be on display in the gallery of national Arts club, 15th Gramercy Park, South New York from 3rd September to 28th September 2024.This award is a cash award of thousand dollars. The award will be given to him on 22nd September in the grand ceremony which will be held at the national Arts club 15th Gramercy Park south, Manhattan, New York. The painting is of a Maharashtrian  shepherd wearing an orange turban. The painting depicts the beauty and grace of Indian culture. 

He is the only Indian artist whose work has been selected four times by the same organization for its annual exhibition. Though Parag Borse has been awarded two times in the past  by the Pastel Society of West Coast, America. He was also awarded two times by the very famous pastel journal magazine which Publishes from America.