Reviews
Jenny Bhatt's Latest Shots
Artist, writer, poet, comedic performer... Jenny Bhatt wears many vibrant feathers in her cap. She is back with a collection of effervescent canvases - Mokshashots: Swimming in the Subconscious - episode 18 of her on going series.
- Living ETC magazine, 2017
Shots at Salvation
Free shots – that’s what artist Jenny Bhatt’s tongue-in-cheek comments on the art community in general and contemporary Indian artists in particular were, when she dabbled in stand-up comedy for a while a few years ago.
- Architect & Interiors India, 2017
When pop art meets spirituality
A melange of pop colours peppered with symbols of spiritualism and consumerism is probably the best way one can describe Jenny Bhatt’s latest creations.
- DNA After Hours, 2017
The unbearable lightness of moksha
With brightly coloured paintings that float around the canvas like random thoughts in a pool, Bhatt’s artworks look a lot like abstract stills from a Roald Dahl novel.
- The Hindu, 2017
Moksha for the mind
Unconventional artist Jenny Bhatt chats about her latest pop yantras and giving life to deity characters in a new comic book.
- MidDay, 2017
In her world, colours take centre stage; monsters come in chocolate flavours and the roads to the quest of spirituality lead to e-commerce, Mandala. Meet the colour bender, and great artist, Jenny Bhatt.
- Society Magazine, 2015
It's not everyday that you get to scribble on the walls of an artist's room! Jenny Bhatt's paintings may radiate colour and be intricately designed, but the walls of her room have been intentionally kept bare. This is the canvas for her friends and visitors to doodle on!
- G2 Magazine, 2015
Jenny Bhatt, an established artist who has been exhiiting her work since the mid-nineties, has evolved over time. This is, in part, owing to her experimental style and the exposure to the creative possibilities offered by technology when working at a digital design studio.
- The Ideal Home and Garden Magazine, 2015
Pop surrealism - thats what you'd want to label her works as. In fact, she might also concede with you. But to the onlooker it's much more than that. Her paintings are like a vortex of ruminations. You could get trapped in the imagery, or you could come away enlightened.
- Good Homes Magazine, 2015
Through MokshaShots Episode 12: The Conquest of the Mind, on display at Gallery Art and Soul, worli, Mumbai till February1, artist jenny Bhatt attempts to capture the urban understanding of spirituality and salvation in a satirical perspective.
- Architects and Interiors India Magazine, 2015
A seamless merging of spirituality and satire, is probably the best way to describe designer and painter Jenny Bhatt's ongoing series of paintings titled Moksha Shots; the twelfth episode of which is currently in a popular gallery in the city.
- Asian Age, 2015
Mumbai based artist Jenny Bhatt's new exhibition is curiously titled Moksha Shots Episode 12: The Conquest of the Mind. She has an interesting explanation for it - "I feel we have taken spirituality too seriously. I wanted to depict a lighter side to it, without trivalising it."
- Hindustan Times - HT Cafe, 2015
In Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, Moksh means salvation. A MokshaShot(by artist Jenny Bhatt's own definition) is a taste of the sublime. Everyone can make their own MokshaShot out og anything they may find fulfilling - art, chocolate, a holiday, a smile, a ferrari or even a tequila shot.
- Sunday Mid-Day, 2015
Episode 2 - Liberation through Consumption' is a cultural critique that focuses on the consumerist myth that fulfilment or Moksha can be attained by the purchase of a product or an experience promised by it. Through her satirical works, Jenny critiques not just the Indian consumer culture but also the psyche of urban India that is, according to her, a bundle of contradictions.
- The BOMBAY TIMES, 2009
Mokshashots was coined by her to summarise the underlying concept of the suite of works she has been creating since 2007. This series was further developed during a three-month art residency programmein Chelsea, New York, in 2008. Moksha means liberation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth(salvation).
- Magazine review - Outlook Profit
I remember going to meet him one time at Pundale Art Gallery. I was asked to come about two in the afternoon. When i got there, I saw a very long painting in the gallery. The colour was still wet. I was told it was 12 Feet long and he had started painting it about three hours before! Needless to say, not many artists even half his age would have been able to do that.
- L'Officeiel India
Through her satrical works she critiques not only the indian consumer culture but also the psyche of urban India that is according to her, a bundle of contradictions. For instance her most recent exhibition titled MokshaShots is a satire on urban consumerism.
- BBC Good Homes
Consumerism is the new secular religion. So Jenny uses the format Thankha and mandala paintings, traditionally used for meditation to highlight the brand-dcification of products, people and experiences, now venerated by the consumer.
- Indian Express
Apparently there are more colors in her paintings than a palette can actually hold and her prescribed Moksha(fulfillment), in her MokshaShots series titles Episode 6: Liberation through Consumption is sure to give a treat to your eyes, humour to your heart and a serious thought to your mind.
- Hindustan Times
Classified under pop surrealism, the series is marked by the use of acrylics on canvas and is inspired by the traditional Thangka paintings used by Tietan monks during meditation and prayers. The farcical diety-like characters holding weapons of mass consumption add on to the ridiculousness of how brands create gods out of products. Read More...