Avatars by Champa

Champa Sharath has been engaged in printmaking, a medium she has mastered with confidence in scale and technique. Her earlier show celebrated the hymns of the Hanuman Chalisa and invocations from Tulasi Das. This new set of works, “Avatars”, represents a departure from her preoccupation with women, allowing her to describe her visions in bold, graphic images that are striking avatars of women and their alter egos.

When women artists like Champa work with female representation, they often reject the traditional portrayal of the female body seen in...