“Of Time and Star 3” is a 2010 mixed-media painting by artist “Rokeya Sultana”. In her attempt to connect the human body in relation to her surrounding, nature, material, form, object and color she tells us her own experience on earth. Instead of capturing the whole saga, her painting encapsulates the small but significant detail that gives us an insight on life, relationship and identity. This painting is her endeavor to find the truth entangled in time and space lost in the infinite web of known and unknown. Her bold colors and abstract figure depicts our position in this ever-expanding universe. Through her painting, she asks to search our identity too.
Artist Profile
Rokeya Sultana
Rokeya Sultana was born in Chittagong in 1958. After graduating from the Bangladesh College of Arts and Crafts in 1980, she received a master’s degree in printmaking from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, in 1983. She has exhibited widely. Sultana is the recipient of numerous national and international scholarships and awards, including a prestigious Fullbright grant, which supported her nine-month artist’s residency at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently a Professor of Printmaking at Dhaka University. Notable among her awards are the Purchase Award, Somerstown Gallery, 4th Biennial, NY, USA (1992), Grand Prize in the 3rd Bharat Bhavan Print Biennale (1995), Bengal Foundation Award in the14th National Art Exhibition (1999), Honourable Mention in the 9th Asian Art Biennale (1999). In 2003, she availed a French government scholarship at L’Atelier Le Couriere et Frelaut in Paris.
Of Time and Star 3
Girl with Rose - 2
“Girl with Rose-2” is an exploration of womanhood. In this 2007 painting, Rokeya Sultana captures a world of women’s own. She brings out the sensitivity of sensual feminine emotions, finds out the century-old reality of womanhood, and takes us inside of a world seen from the eyes of women. Colors in close proximity, lines flowing with purpose, and detailed brushwork together create a sense of focus in a compactly combined frame.
This painting a delicate and thoughtful study of internal battle. this celebrates the emotional journey of women. Painting in bright pink, she exploits the elements to declares the power of feminity. she takes us on an emotional journey of imagination and truth.
Artist Art Style
Through a symbolic personal language, she expresses such metaphysical perceptions as women in communion with nature, who lead the next generation, becoming the key to the world. Widely known for her figural series Madonna and Relations, and her abstract landscapes in the Earth Water Series, Sultana is an important printmaker and painter, and continues to innovate and refine her vision.
