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A muralist extraordinaire, Shanti Dave’s career as an abstract painter has been without precedent. Working with thick encaustic and casts, his paintings have a tactile materiality at once reminiscent of murals as of layers of history captured through fragments of calligraphed text and sacred figures. Dave creates a tenuous relationship between these, filling up the space with tumbling forms, like ancient cities lost to mankind, and transparent layers of paint recording the passage of time. This outstanding painting bears him out as a history watcher content to observe changing times from an exceptional perspective that lies beyond time.