“Images in which the comic and the tragic seem interchangeable, are characteristic of work that has made Ms. Singh one of the best-known contemporary artists in India. They are also evidence of an art gradually darkening in tone and lightening in form, a rewarding way to go in this remarkable painter's hands.”

The New York Times

A dreamlike logic liberates familiar, everyday objects from the rules of reality, transforming them into symbols which evade interpretation... Arpita Singh’s paintings further capture the tenuous line separating an ever-shifting landscape and the sanctum of home. They consider whether the home can remain a refuge, immune from the surrounding disturbances, the landscapes in motion. Collectively, however, these works demonstrate that life must continue despite and within these contested terrains.

Shanay Jhaveri

Much of Arpita's work, world, and ideology is
history compressed into fables and allegories;
what we witness are diverse imaginaries.

Geeta Kapur

“There was a desire to put colours at times and I used them sparingly so that I remain in touch with them...
and gradually as I started associating forms with recognisable things, narratives followed, and then
the move back to figurative.”

Arpita Singh

The rhythms of repetition form structure and continuity within her paintings and between them.

DEEPAK ANANTH

"They have the personal modesty of notebook entries in which recurrent dreams are jotted down..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Arpita Singh achieves a richness in suggestion through the repetition of images as multiple reflections or as a system of inner rhymes so the self-same motifs in different positions or different relationships take on a different connotation..."
EBRAHIM ALKAZI

 

“Singh, who thinks of herself as a detached observer of the grand spectacle of life has shown in her art a driving urge to understand reality and the intangible rhythms that lie behind giving it shape and substance.”
ELLA DATTA
 

"Sometimes stained or slightly battered, the drawings show their age proudly. This is art, after all, that survived the intensity of its own turbulent making."
BARRY SCHWABSKY

“...intense, colourful figurative paintings feel like a glimpse of interior life, of emotion and trauma.”
THE GUARDIAN