Tauseef Khan

Tauseef’s Reflections series is an entire symphony built around this note. “Through my paintings, I want to explore the concept of constantly changing perceptions. For instance, the monuments of Delhi, which I often paint, are objects of grandeur and antiquity, but to me, they are also familiar markers of my home city, places I often visited with family and friends.”

That mixed tone of wonderment and comfort is evident in the way Tauseef depicts historical architecture: bright, as if bathed in afternoon sunlight, immediate as if tactile. Panels of Mughal inlay work in marble and bejeweled stone are vividly presented in some paintings, and in others, the red sandstone of a temple seems so comfortably warm you’d want to touch it.