Laxma Goud is recognized for his graceful, yet powerful line drawings, etchings and watercolors. His works are microcosms of an idyllic, bucolic reality that is slowly being destroyed by urbanisation.
Born in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh in 1940, he earned a diploma in drawing and painting from the Government College of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad, in 1963. Goud then went onto study mural painting and printmaking at M.S. University, Baroda. By the late 1960s, K. Laxma Goud had developed a distinct style with finely chiselled, yet pliant lines and delicate washes of color that he used to depict man's interaction with nature.
K. Laxma Goud is a master draughtsman as well as a versatile printmaker and painter who has worked in a variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel and grass paintings. His simple images reflect an idyllic worldview, untainted by the harsh and dark realities of modern existence, as it were. The artist’s sensitive soul longs for that bucolic, humane world that he sees and paints with his mind’s eye. In his works, he recreates the rural landscape. The coliur, innocence, simplicity , the depiction of flora and flauna and the sheer beauty of his landscapes makes one want to get back to fairy tale times. The artist’s remarkable still and sophistication in handling his medium ( pencil and brush ) are evident.
K. Laxma Goud was honoured by the Padma Shri in 2016. Goud is the head of Sarojini Naidu Schoool of Performing Art, Fine Art and Communication, University of Hyderabad. The artist lives and works in Hyderabad.
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Education
1963-65 Post -Diploma in Murals Painting and Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Student of Prof. K. G. Subramanyan)
1957-62 Diploma (Drawing and Painting ), Government College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 'I want to Seduce with My Line', K.Laxma Goud: Etchings, Drawings, Watercolour, Pen and Ink, Acrylic, Sculptures and Mixed Media Works Period 1967-2011 at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Art Musings, Mumbai
2011 'Everyday Life', Focus Art Gallery, Chennai
2009 Aicon Gallery, London
2009 Gallerie 88, Kolkata
2008 'Water Colour, Drawings, Intaglio, Etchings and Sculptures', Indian Contemporary Art (ICA), Jaipur
2008 ‘Intalgio Prints 2007’, Gallery Space, Hyderabad
2008 Sumukha Gallery, Chennai
2007 ‘Laxma Goud, 40 Years: A Retrospective’, Aicon Gallery, New York
2006 Recent Terracotta, Ceramic, Bronze Sculptures, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2006 Bronze and Terra – Cottas Sculpture Show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2003 Early Works, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Arts India Gallery, New York
2001-02 Grey Art Gallery, New York
1991 The Gallery, Chennai
1985 Lalit Kala Akademi. New Delhi
1982 Royal Academy, London
1976 Black Partridge Gallery, New Delhi
1975-76 Hamburg, Germany
1974 Surya Gallerie, Friensheim, West Germany
1973 Andsell Gallery, London
1972 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1965-67 Kalabhavan, Hyderabad
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 'Diva', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'Metallurgy', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata
2011-12 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 'States of Departure: Progressives to Present Day', Aicon Gallery, London
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Dali's Elephant', Aicon Gallery, London
2010 'The Living Insignia', Gallery Ensign, New Delhi
2010 'Modern Folk: The Folk Art Roots of the Modernist Avant-Garde', Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 'Black is Beautiful', India Fine Art, Mumbai
2010 'Essential, Eclectic,...Ephemeral', The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata
2009 'Mark of Masters -2', Art and Soul, Mumbai
2009 'In Search of the Vernacular', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai
2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'The Root of Everything', Gallery Mementos, Bangalore
2009 Gallery Space, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
2009 'Moderns and More', Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
2008 'X at the rate of Jehangir', presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 1 x I Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 ‘High on Art’, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Mumbai
2007 'Pursuit Sculpture', Galerie 88, Kolkata
2007 ‘17th Anniversary Show’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2007 ‘An Evening in Paris…Rome…London’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2007 ‘Colors of Art’, presented by Galerie Sara Arakkal and Gallery Art Resource Trust at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘The Workshop’, India Fine Art, Mumbai
2007 'Look Again', Hasta Gallery, Hyderabad
2007 ‘From The Vault’, Aicon Gallery, London and New York
2006 'Drawing Show an Act of Art II', Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'The Naked Line: Drawings by 12 Artists', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 'Tangibles', Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'Back To The Future', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2005 'Change of Address', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2001 'The Active Line: Five Idioms of Drawing', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 'Drawings', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 'Wounds' Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) New Delhi
1986 Contemporary Art of India: The Herwitz Collection, Worcester Art Museum
1986 'Indian Art Tomorrow', The Philips Collection, Washington DC
1985 'Contemporary Indian Art', Grey Art Gallery, New York
1982 Royal Academy of Art, London
Joint Exhibitions
2009 With Viraj Naik at Gallery Mementos, Bangalore
Participations
2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2014 'Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art', Apprao Galleries, Chennai
2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 ‘Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi
2010 'Contemporary Printmaking In India', presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 ‘Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008-09 ‘Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Indian Art’, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai; Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati; Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur; Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad; Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalay’s, Solapur; Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur; PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune; Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
1977 Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
Honours and Awards
1971 Gold Medal, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh
1969 Gold Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1968 Silver Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1966-70 Award, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh
1962 Award, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh
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