Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself – Art Exhibit

Presented jointly with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Natvar Bhavsar: Free Yourself surveys fifty years of the artist's expressive abstractions, inviting viewers to meditate on the power of pure color.

Bhavsar: Free Yourself is a two-part exhibition surveying fifty years of the artist's expressive abstractions and inviting viewers to meditate on the power of pure color. Simultaneously presented at UB Anderson Gallery and in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum's M&T Bank Gallery (August 21, 2026&April 4, 2027), the exhibition features monumental paintings spanning each decade of the artist's career.
Bhavsar's unique physical process centers on tiny particles of pure, dry pigment. He begins by soaking the entire canvas in a clear acrylic binder, then sifts or brushes pigment through handmade tools and fine mesh screens, building up to eighty sealed layers. Air currents, breath, and the rhythm of his body as he maneuvers around the surface help shape the final image a carefully controlled dance that produces textured, smoky surfaces with subtle shifts in color and tone. As Bhavsar describes: “When I enter my studio, everything disappears. It's like I've entered another world. I experience Nirvana. It's an incredible gift in which I disappear, the studio itself disappears, New York disappears.”
Examined up close, his dappled surfaces are palpable; from a distance, the color fields float and become atmospheric.