Pune, Maharashtra, India
Akshay Jadhav is a Pune-based painter and mixed media artist whose practice draws on the visual language of the city — its layered surfaces, its erasures, its accidental beauty. Working in oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas and board, he builds densely textured surfaces that hold the memory of multiple gestures. His work sits at the intersection of abstraction and material investigation.
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The first completed work in the Layered Histories series — a sustained investigation into the visual archaeology of Pune's old city. Sections of local Marathi newsprint are embedded beneath the final paint layers; visible only as ghost forms beneath subsequent glazes of raw sienna and grey.
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Part of the Surface Tension series, which began after a residency in Goa. The resin pours were made in a single session; the acrylic layers were applied over six subsequent weeks. The final surface captures a moment of stasis between liquid and solid.
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A response to the Kasba neighbourhood of old Pune — its compressed streets and centuries of habitation compressed into texture. The surface contains fragments of a demolished doorway photographed on-site and transferred into the ground layer.
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Painted from memory in the studio, drawing on the visual residue of the Deccan Plateau after the first monsoon rains — the wet red earth, the briefly vivid vegetation, the quality of light that arrives only in those first weeks of June.
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One of an ongoing series of smaller threshold studies — works made quickly, in a single session, as a counterpoint to the slow accumulative process of the larger paintings. The threshold here is both literal (a doorway) and temporal.
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