"One hundred years after the beginning of its ascent, abstract art still confounds many people, viewed as manipulative hoax by some, as charlatans' ploy by others. What is apparent in Jayashree Chakravarty's newest works is the long road through realism and mimesis which has led to her current abstractions. Hers has been a patient and delicate delving into the nature of appearances, an achingly slow remove from the figure and its containments of city or landscape or even dream. A process which has brought the artist to paint pictures which feel so familiar, so sure and so patently known (at least to me), that they bes to be questioned as abstractions at all. Are these then not pictures of the new realisms which encompass us all? These are pictures of the body and its energies (seen by both the high-tech devices of medical imaging and the ancient theories of Tantra); of the multi-dimensional flow of information which engulfs us all (from radio waves to the intrnet to the still-untapped powers of telepathy and telekinesis); to the synergy of all pasts and all futures which converge at the moment in which we are always trapped-the inescapable present. It's hard for me to imagine a viewer who cannot recognize him or herself in these paintings by Jayashree Chakravarty."
- An excerpt from the exhibition essay by Peter Nagy.