Through Aug. 31

Pigment Gallery
Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center
1860 Mellwood Ave. • 895-3650
mellwoodartcenter.com

Gestalt: an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. That idea was one of Aishwarya Kulkarni Bavle’s starting points for her “Gestalt” series. Other creative springboards were the perception about women’s emotions, her Indian heritage, and her architecture training. Mixing it all together with surrealism equals an art style unique to Bavle, who prefers to use oil paint on glass. “I love glass as a medium because it is versatile and malleable to my needs,” she says. “It is very interactive both with the artist and the viewer. The glass is perfectly inert underneath my paints, but has a life of its own in areas untouched by my brush.” —Jo Anne Triplett