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Friday, December 9, 2011

PRESS:

Kavita Bali is a visual poet, contemporary fine artist and filmmaker who has just released her first book of poetry, ‘Dancing, Creative Souls’ which is available on her Etsy & Blurb stores online and by appointment at her Greenville studio. Stay tuned for book readings in 2012! To purchase a book in time for Christmas, please order by Wed. Dec. 14th for SC delivery or contact us by email to set up a studio appointment. BUY Poetry Book

Bali is honored to have her painting 'Alpine Dreams' on the cover of Fete Magazine's December issue. Make sure to check out her Artist Profile on Page 37 while you browse through this multimedia celebration of downtown Greenville! Fete Magazine - December 2011

Also, if you happen to make your way to the Children's Museum of the Upstate during this holiday season, do enjoy the Local Heroes 'I Can Be Anything' traveling exhibit. Kavita had volunteered to create an original painting for the grand opening in July 2009. See if you can find 'Piedmont Blues: Pink Anderson' and then later make an appointment to visit her Urban Peacock Studio (just a little further down off Academy Street at 1278 Pendleton St. in the Far West End) to see the original painting and learn the inspirational story behind the painting!

Bali creates under the philosophy that there are no limits to what one can achieve, that limits are artificial. "If you can imagine an idea," she says, "you can make it happen. Getting to the point where you can imagine the idea comes through observation, analysis and interpretation. And that comes from the number of ways that you can see. The only true limit is how far your perseverance will take you."

To be notified of future art events, please join her Facebook Artist Page : Facebook.com/UrbanPeacockStudios

To learn more about Kavita Bali, please visit : www.UrbanPeacock.com

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful holiday season!

Kavita Bali, Urban Peacock Studios

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Some more Urban Peacock sightings during 2011

November

Bali joined 123 other artists to participate in Greenville's premiere visual arts event, Open Studios organized by the Metropolitan Arts Council. Bali's studio saw 999 visitors during the course of the weekend with many stories and smiles exchanged by all. Kavita's 2010 12" x 12" painting 'Firefly Harmony' is currently on exhibit at the MAC Gallery, part of the 'Squared Off' exhibit which runs through Dec. 16th. If you have time, do stop by 16 Augusta Street to check out the show full of diverse local talent from participating Open Studio artists!

October

Bali completed an updated version of her 1992 short film 'To Serve' with new footage shot in NYC during the summer. The virtual collaboration with composer/ sound artist Christi Denton was presented live for the Electrogals 2011 Festival - Gals Gone Wired which took place at Disjecta in Portland, Oregon October 10 - 15, 2011.

May

Locally, Bali shared over 52 works of art (including 40+ paintings, photography and silkscreens) in her Solo Art Exhibition ‘Emotional Expressionism’ during May 2011 at Village Studios & Gallery in Greenville, SC where she is a resident artist. Bali has fallen in love with Greenville's creative community and it's warm embrace. She looks forward to exploring more theater, music and film events in 2012. Also, check out the short film shot by Adam Harvley and notice the figurative watercolor paintings created by her mom almost 50 years ago. This was Bali's way to honor her mother. Emotional Expressionism Video

Earlier this year Bali was a local sponsor for the Reedy River Duck Derby organized by the Rotary Club of Greenville Evening on May 7, 2011. Bali donated an original, professionally framed painting, 'Disco Under the Sea' which had previosly been exhibited at CBS MarketWatch headquarters in San Francisco, California and was a crowd favorite. Bali was thrilled that the painting went to a family who would love it as much as she did.

Some History:

Bali's short films have been screened in the United States including at the San Francisco World Affairs Council, Venue 9, SOMARTS Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture, UC Berkeley, Seattle’s Northwest Asian American Film Festival, Theater Off Jackson at the Oseao Studios in Seattle, Washington, The Everest Theater in Dallas, Texas, The University of Nebraska at Lincoln and most recently at Furman University’s Burgiss Theater in South Carolina.

Bali’s paintings are part of private collections in the United States with her most recent sale to a Danish couple who reside in China. Her paintings have been on display locally at Upstate Visual Arts, Village Studios & Gallery and the Childrens Museum of the Upstate. Bali has been honored by Artist Residencies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and at the WORKS Gallery in San Jose. She's been part of group exhibitions with the Asian American Women Aritsts Association at the d.p. fong Gallery, WORKS Gallery, SOMARTS Gallery, CBS MarketWatch and various venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. To meet Bali, just come on down to Greenville's vibrant First Friday's monthly gallery crawl and visit her upstairs at Village Studios.

Bali moved to the US from Allahabad, India at age six and has worked in visual arts, design, film, experimental performance and poetry. She stumbled onto the interactive design scene in 1994 while in the MFA Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and then jumped ship to help navigate the world for innocent mortals. Bali earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is enjoying getting to know the Greenville region as she continues to explore creativity in life.

Comments about Kavita's Art & Films:

"This is a great show. I am always so impressed by the stylistic unity yet colorful diversity of your work and am moved by the thoughts and emotions your work let's me experience. UP, we are so blessed to have you in Greenville and to call you a friend." -- John David Mangrum, Greenville, SC (May 2011)

"Bali is the kind of artist whose passion for artistic integrity and the creative process is unbounded and infectious." -- India West magazine. San Francisco, CA. (March 2002)

"Kavita Bali captures the world with a definitive eye, stopping the flow of time and space through her lenses. She shares with us some transcendental moments, where the feminine body locates itself against a world that parades at times against a canvass of demands, and in other times, strolls in the lazy glow of memory." -- Chinatown Community Arts Program, Roger T. Lee, Mhs. San Francisco, CA. (July 2000)

To be notified of future art events, please join her Facebook Page : Facebook.com/UrbanPeacockStudios

To learn more about Kavita Bali, please visit : www.UrbanPeacock.com

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day.

(Last Updated: December 9, 2011)

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