Manick Sorcar
Statement:
I see art in everything that I look at. Whether it be grains of food or building materials, I see them as the media for creating beautiful art. If I like the lines of a rock tile, I imagine it as a canvas to replicate cave art or painting a stone statue on it. Colors of spices excite me to use them for human expressions. The digital revolution gave me the opportunity to mix art with digital science to create new evolutionarily works of art as well. My art palette contains spices, seeds, lentils, sand, bricks, newspaper pieces, Styrofoam, laser, etc. in addition to the traditional paint-colors. With all these, I enjoy taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary.
My interest in art started when I was a small child doodling on the walls and soon creating simple art sketches on plain paper. I remember when I was in grade 6 at school, my teachers liked one particular pencil sketch of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (a great Bengali novelist) so much that they published it in the school’s first magazine (‘Abartan’), which was a great source of inspiration to me.
The first major break, however, came when my father (Late P.C. Sorcar, the renowned magician) allowed me to paint some of the magic equipment and background scenes of his world-touring magic shows. I don't know how good they were, but people loved them and he was very pleased with my creativity and encouraged me to do more. One led to another, and soon my interest in painting grew simultaneously with an interest in lighting design, which was an essential part of the stage show. This love of mixing art with lighting design, and particularly the quest of learning the science of illumination led me to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from BHU, Varanasi, India and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. After graduating I became a Lighting Engineer by day and a passionate artist of many forms by night and weekends.
I have spent several years exploring the endless boundaries of art which span from human faces, historical works, nature replicas, modern art and Indian rural art - many that have been exhibited and sold in galleries. Some of my favorite pieces are displayed on this site (links below) for your viewing pleasure. It's your support and love for my art that keeps me inspired to keep creating. Enjoy!
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