Vikash Kalra

New Delhi based artist Vikash Kalra was a businessman before he became a self-taught artist. He was inspired by the works of masters such as Pablo Picasso and F N Souza. Kalra is known for his fluid abstract paintings and sculptures, often addressing difficult themes and with a subliminal quality. As quoted in Art Indus, It taps into the remnants of a forgiven yet inescapable past. Still, it offers you hope. Hope, because by witnessing its emotive familiarity and by valuing each moment for itself, with each stroke and each expression, you are in fact freed by it. The artist himself has expressed his own work as a process of unlearning all previous knowledge, a process of simplifying himself without losing ones soul. In 2020, he installed an online show with Asif Kamal Foundation to raise funds as part of a Bihar flood relief effort.