Profile:

Ashoke Mullick as a painter, juxtaposes two opposing themes in his works. There is a potential mismatch between his contentwise concern and the idiom of objectification he has fashioned out of a well-used linguistic system. But since an artist’s abilities are often measured by his capacity to contain ambiguities to enchance the effectiveness of his art by avoiding pitfall.Paintings done with oil colours, on large support of canvas or board, applied flstly in expensive masses which agglomerate into flat linear forms on uniplanimetric surfaces have a natural tendency towrads becomingformal design, even when the comprising forms have their representational semblaces.

Ashoke’s characters, at one instance, appear to be real life characters in real life situations displaying their predicaments as if in theatrical manner, for looking the sympathy of the viewers. Ashoke does not engage his characters in normal wordly relational stances, nor does he place them in descriptive situations. An owl in his painting, placed almost on the same plane. Can be as large or even larger then a woman, placed along side. All that a room, in Ashoke’s painting, is supposed to contain is a cluttered claustrophobic cage enclosing vulnerable human- islands, with a peep-hole of a window or a door opening to the airy openness of bountiful nature outside.

Education : 

Govt College of Arts and Crafts

Major Exhibitions:

Solo:

Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta-1986

 Display Gallery, N. Delhi (Organised by Pundole Art Gallery) 1991.

 Pundole Art Gallery, -1994   (title -“Works on Paper”)

The Gallery, Madras-1995

Crimson, Bangalore-1996

Art Today, New Delhi -1997 (2 men show)

Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai-1998

Maximasia – Jakarta, Indonesia- 2006

Group:

Rabindra Bhavan, N.Delhi-1982

Tata Centre (along with M.F. Hussain) Calcutta-1984                Lalit Kala Academy of Eastern Regional Art Exhibition-1989,90 & 91

“Human Rights by artists of Bengal”, organised by Alliance Francis de Calcutta-1989

 Painters from Calcutta” - Stockholm, Sweden-1985

“Impressions from Calcutta” - Mannaheim, Germany-1992

‘Impressions from Calcutta”- (9 Indian Artists) - Werkstattgalerie, Hidelberg, Germany-1993

Malarei and Grafik Indischer Klunstley - Schlob Datzingen, Grafenau, Germany-1994,1997

Collection:

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal

Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan

And various private collections both in India and abroad