December 20-26, 2013 - Archana Santra

Archana Santra, artist and resident of Queens NY, was horn in India. She is a graduate in Arts from Calcutta (Burdwan) and also Maharashtra Mumbai. Her style is self developed and self taught.

She took to art as a departure from death, her encounter with the loss of her loved ones left her seeking more out of life and she turned her attention towards an inner journey through the medium of art.

She stayed twenty three years in Rajasthan which is a desert.

Archana has had five individual gallery exhibits, her most recent one (2OI3) at the Jehangir art gallery,  (Kalaghoda) in Mumbai, India and has been in group shows in Brooklyn and Queens. She teaches women art and design in Queens and Brooklyn.

She is a member of the Art Club in Glendale, Queens. To see more of Archanna's work up close, visit GEAR on Monday evenings (6 to 9 p.m.) at 61-O8 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale, NY. Ph: 718-385-2812.

E-mail Archana Santra at santra12000@yahoo.com