Laxma Goud

Born in 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh, K. Laxma Goud completed his diploma in Drawing and Painting at the Government College of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad, in 1963, then went on to study Mural Painting and Printmaking at the College of Fine Arts. at MS University of Baroda, from 1963 to 1965. Goud displays versatility in a variety of media, from printmaking, drawing, watercolor, gouache, and pastels to painting on glass and sculpture in bronze and terracotta. Over the many years of his artistic career, he is known to have moved from one medium to another with Elan. His fellow artist T. Vaikuntam, in one of his interviews, remembers that it was Laxma Goud who introduced him to the art of drawing and made him aware of the possibilities of this medium.

When you look at God's work, the first words that come to mind are rustic, raw, and powerful. His portraits of men and women represent the dynamic spirit of India rather than particular individual identities. A recurring theme in the artist is that of the erotic, treated as an active and powerful aspect of sexuality and male and female existence. Goud's work is dramatic, his protagonists are raw and lively in their appeal, imbued with an energy that reverberates through their strokes and textures. Most of Goud's art focuses on the rural, recreating landscapes from his childhood as if frozen in time. In the artist's later work, his figures become softer, and more introspective than daring in his perspective.

Recently, the artist has worked on a series of lush landscapes in vivid colors reminiscent of his youth in rural Andhra Pradesh. Like most of the artist's works, they are generally executed in miniature format, in what is perhaps an attempt to create an intimate atmosphere in which the viewer can interact directly with his creations.

In 2007, the exhibition Laxma Goud's 40 Years A Retrospective was organized by Aicon Gallery, New York. Other recent solo exhibitions of Goud's work include Sculptures, Bronze, and Terracottas at Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2006, Recent Terracotta, Ceramic and Bronze Sculptures at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2006. , and those held at Aicon Gallery, New York, in 2003, and Gray Art Gallery, New York, in 2001-02. Some of the notable group exhibitions in which his works have been presented are From the Vault at Aicon Gallery, London, and New York, in 2007, 17th Anniversary Show at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata, in 2007, and Back to the Future in Gallery Space. , New Delhi, in 2006. Goud's work was also part of the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, in 1977, and Indian Art Tomorrow at the Philips Collection, Washington D.C. in 1986.

The artist lives and works in Hyderabad.

BORN

21 August 1940 Nizampur, Medak, Hyderabad

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

1963-65 Post-Diploma in Mural Painting and Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Student of Prof. K. G. Subramanyan)

1957-62 Diploma (Drawing and Painting), Government College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 I want to seduce with my line, K.Laxma Goud Prints, drawings, watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic, sculptures, and mixed media works Period 1967-2011 at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi

2011 Art Reflections, Mumbai

2011 Everyday Life, Focus Art Gallery, Chennai

2009 Aicon Gallery, London

2009 Gallery 88, Calcutta

2008 Watercolor, drawings, intaglio, etchings and sculptures, Indian contemporary art (ICA), Jaipur

2008 Intaglio prints 2007, Gallery Space, Hyderabad

2008 Sumukha Gallery, Chennai

2007 Laxma Goud, 40 years of retrospective, Aicon Gallery, New York

2006 Recent Terracotta, Ceramic and Bronze Sculptures, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. 

2006 Bronze and Terra - Cottas Sculpture Exhibition, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. 

2003 Early Works, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2003 Arts India Gallery, New York

2001-02 Gray Art Gallery, New York

1991 The Gallery, Chennai

1985 Lalit Kala Akademi. New Delhi

1982 Royal Academy of London

1976 Black Partridge Gallery, New Delhi

1975-76 Hamburg, Germany

1974 Surya Gallerie, Friensheim, West Germany

1973 Andsell Gallery, London

1972 Chemould Gallery, Mumbai

1965-67 Kalabhavan, Hyderabad 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Diva, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2012 Metalwork, The Harrington Street Arts Center, Calcutta

2011-12 Reprise 2011, Aicon Gallery, New York

2011 Progressive Starting States to the Present, Aicon Gallery, London

2011 Anecdotes, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2010 Dalis Elephant, Aicon Gallery, London

2010 The Living Insignia, Ensign Gallery, New Delhi

2010 Modern Folk The roots of popular art of the modernist avant-garde, Aicon Gallery, New York

2010 Black is Beautiful, Indian Fine Arts, Mumbai

2010 Essential, eclectic, ephemeral, The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata

2009 Mark of Masters -2, Art and Soul, Mumbai

2009 In Search of the Vernacular, Aicon Gallery, New York

2009 Sacred and Secular, Fine Arts of India, Mumbai

2009 Think Small, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi

2009 The Root of Everything, Mementos Gallery, Bangalore

2009 Gallery Space, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

2009 Moderns and More, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto

2008 X to the rhythm of Jehangir, presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai

2007 High on Art, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Mumbai

2007 Chase Sculpture, Galerie 88, Calcutta

2007 17th Anniversary Exhibition, Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata

2007 An Evening in Paris Rome London, Sanskriti Gallery, Calcutta

2007 Colors of Art, presented by Galerie Sara Arakkal and Gallery Art Resource Trust at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2007 The Workshop, Indian Fine Arts, Mumbai

2007 Look Again, Hasta Gallery, Hyderabad

2007 From The Vault, Aicon Gallery, London and New York

2006 Drawing Exhibition: An Act of Art II, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai

2006 Nude line drawings by 12 artists, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2006 Tangibles, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai

2006 Back to the Future, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2005 Change of address, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. 

2001 The Active Line Five Idioms of Drawing, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

1998 Drawings, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

1993 Wound Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) New Delhi

1986 Contemporary Art from India Herwitz Collection, Worcester Art Museum

1986 Indian Art of Tomorrow, Philips Collection, Washington DC

1985 Contemporary Indian Art, Gray Art Gallery, New York

1982 Royal Academy of Art, London

SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITION

2009 With Viraj Naik at Gallery Mementos, Bangalore

PARTICIPATIONS

2014 Ode to Monumental Celebration, Visuality, and Ideology, presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2014 Rituals and reasons that invoke the sensual in art, Apprao Galleries, Chennai

2013 The Nude and the Nude The Body in Modern Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2011 Ethos V Indian Art through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore

2011 Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2011 Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2010 Masters Corner, organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India International Art Fair, New Delhi

2010 Contemporary Printmaking in India, presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai

2010 Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2008-09 Expanding Horizons Contemporary Indian Art, traveling exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati, Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur, Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad, Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalays, Solapur, Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur, PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune, Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik

2008 Harvest 2008, organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi

1977 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil

HONORS AND AWARD

2016 Awarded Padma Shri by The Government of India

1971 Gold Medal, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh

1969 Gold Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad

1968 Silver Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad

1966-70 Award, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh

1962 Award, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh

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