Roshan Chhabria

Chhabria works can be viewed as pages from a personal scrapbook - with drawings that spill into found and ready- made objects, sculptural and site-specific installations and then back into drawings. Each work is articulated and presented as a visual cluster rather than as a stand-alone object in a singular medium. This potpourri of material and form allows the artist to express observed and experienced dichotomies in social customs, traditions, norms and conditions with conscious naivety, irony and wit.

Humour and double meanings are inherent, but most often the light-hearted portrayal is laced with constant reservation and doubt. The use of text becomes a route to question the notion of the ‘good’; ‘misspellings’ and inconsistent conjugation position him right at the knife’s edge between two worlds.

Object Study/Mechanical Drawing 18" x 20" Water Color on Paper	Man Ray's Istree 18" x 20" Water Color on paper	Stree is doing Istree 16" x 22" Water Color on Paper
American Ironman 11" x 14" Water color on paper	Display of Manrays Istree	Found Print 6" x 8" Found Image (print)
Drum Painter 16" x 22" Gouache on Paper	Sharing money for alcohol 16" x 22" Gouache on Paper	Man with microscope 16" x 22" Gouache on Paper
Display of man with microscope	Anti asethetic object 16" x 26" Water color and charcoal on paper	Black magic and Joan miro 16" x 26" Water color and charcoal on paper
Black tar on white Sadhra 16" x 24" Water color and charcoal on paper	Crow and Shradh 16" x 26" Water color and charcoal on paper	marks of black shoe polish 16" x 26" water color and charcoal on paper
lady ironing 11" x 9" Pencil on paper	young boy sleeping till 11am 10" x 9" water color on paper	Weight of a brain/mechanical drawing 24" x 36" water color on pencil and paper 2013
Couple in Walmart/ Technology series 13" x 19" gouache on paper 2013	TV advertisement of Japanese broom gouache on paper 13" x 19" 2013