In 1995 Payal moved to New York City
where she currently resides, to pursue a degree at Parsons
School of Design. She graduated in 1999 with honors,
with a BFA in illustration and a minor in Fine Arts.
After having sold most of her senior thesis exhibited
at her graduating show in a gallery in New York, she
has gone on to display her works in a local, in an auction
held by a South Asian women's rights organization in
New York City, and more recently in a group show in
Bombay. in text she draws her inspirations from color,
texture, and structure. Creating an orchestration of
hues and a quiet interplay of glazes, her paintings
manipulate and explore a new vocabulary to communicate,
that which is the emotion behind an experience.
"Using color as a metaphor, I have struggled,
I have drawn from the past. But it is not personal;
the feeling it evokes in me needn't be what it evokes
in another; I am hesitant therefore to the work, to
use a written language to explain a visual one. I fear
it interferes with its purpose. While in progress its
purpose is to relive the experience, but once complete
it assumes its own life. In the end, the viewer has
his own relationship with the work; if it evokes a response
in him different than the original stimuli, it is successful
still, in that now there are two sets of experiences."
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