Artist: Tanvi Thakur (1996) Title: Blue Drops on Red, Drops With Dots Series Year: 2025 Medium: Archival Pigment Print on Paper Edition: 300 Size: 8 x 12 inches Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist Description: "Drops with Dots" is where play meets pattern. This series embraces vibrant color, drippy forms, and endless dots as a way of letting the mind wander and the hand relax. The artist finds comfort in repetition, each dot a small, quiet moment, each pattern a mini meditation. What begins as simple mark-making grows into lively, pulsing compositions that feel both spontaneous and soothing. It's a reminder that sometimes the most joyful art comes from switching off the noise and getting lost in the rhythm of making. TANVI THAKUR (1996) was born in Ajmer, India, and raised in the bustling city of Bengaluru, where she first discovered art as a child, sketching on a chalkboard her mother hung on their balcony. Shaped early by weekly boarding-school art classes and a teacher who trained her hand in brushwork and watercolor, Thakur came to see drawing and painting as a language for emotions that words couldn't hold. In 2014, she moved alone to New York City to pursue the dream her mother championed, earning a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2018. After a brief detour into marketing, she returned to painting with renewed urgency during the isolation of the COVID era, building a makeshift studio at home and working late into the night, finding steadiness through repetition. Over time, she developed a signature visual rhythm: dense fields of patterns and motifs, especially dots, layered until the surface feels charged and alive. Since returning to the U.S., she has continued to develop her practice, exhibiting locally and contributing work annually to a Rochester charity showcase. Today, Thakur's avant-garde paintings are defined by their meticulous repetition, luminous palettes, and protective iconography, an immediately recognizable body of work driven by reinvention, cultural memory, and the search for a more radiant self.