Born in Loha, Nanded District, Maharashtra in 1968, Audumbar Rudrawar is a Bombay based artist. He has a Master in Fine Arts in Painting from the Sir JJ School of Arts (1993) and a BFA from the Government School Art, Aurangabad (1990). Rudrawar practices forms of so-called abstraction using an existential process of oil and watercolour on paper and canvas.

Audumbar is a man of few words and his creations also reflect the same. He often titles his paintings, Unit, Cobalt Space, just as minimalist as the paintings itself. He believes in instilling the world around him to be able to create only what is absolutely essential. Observing everything around him, the forms occupy the all-important ‘space’ in his paintings, sensitive to every nuance of its shape, orientation and placement. Rudrawar believes that to create, one has to completely understand the basic form of nature, life, or any such entity. His paintings are shorn of any superfluous forms and are the bare essentials required to convey his experiences. For him color is not only for decorative purposes but is also a form he is sensitive to the hue, intensity and overall place it occupies in relation to the work.

SH Raza described Rudrawar’s practice ” He proceeds with a single sign, a dot – launched in space, loaded with potentials of form & colour. The space variation is mysterious, simple yet alive, akin to the condensed energy of a seed aspiring for growth. ”

Of his latest suite of works, ‘Presence – Absence’, a show on the idea of perspective and its treatment of absence in form, Prabhakar Kamble, co-curator for the show, describes Audumbar’s work, “The term’s absence and presence are described in the fundamental state of being, both are self-referential. That fact or condition of being present and the state of being absent or away. Presence and absence is about the idea of perspective and its treatment of absence in form, the luminous and self-explanatory forms and pains turn to illustrate the multi-dimensional possibility of medium. It creates room for three-dimensional objects. There is a living volume roaming in his paintings through the diffusive circinate application/ treatment around the form and space. It is highly minimalistic in approach but it requires assiduity to handle this treatment in art. The misplacement of a single dot takes on the possibility of great chance to lose the beauty of scenic visuals. It is reliving.”