Vasu Tolia MD

I am a visual artist working in mixed media art, combining acrylics, ink, charcoal, oil crayons, and paper to create pieces that capture my evolving exploration of the world. With a decade of experience, I find immense fulfillment in the immediacy of completing each artwork, though I understand that in the visual and literary arts, the notion of completion remains fluid. What appears finished today might evolve and demand revision tomorrow as I seek clarity within the chaos of creativity.My creative journey revolves around encapsulating the essence of the world's dance and music through the interplay of light and shadow. I strive to convey a profound sense of existence, channeling these experiences onto my canvas. Constantly evolving, my art transitions from representational to nuanced or absolute abstraction across a spectrum of themes. In my solo exhibitions, I have focussed on specific themes such as women, abstracts, nature, each exploring a unique facet of my artistic expression. Particularly, the concept of women— their freedom, equality, and their multifaceted roles— holds profound importance for me, and I am passionate about portraying their narratives whenever I can. I’ve partnered with several charities to help lift up underprivileged, and those suffering from medical and mental illness.My artistic pursuit involves visualizing the impact of perception and experiences, translating them onto the canvas irrespective of the chosen theme. Employing colors, shapes, lines, brushstrokes, structural arrangements, and textures as my expressive tools, I manipulate and interact with them— mapping, shifting, scraping, and erasing—to sculpt my raw concepts. Ultimately, my goal is to evoke a visceral awareness in viewers, inviting them into a dynamic journey of shifting perceptions as they engage with my art.

Vasu is a visual artist working in acrylics and mixed media. She is mostly self-taught from experimentation and imagination. Her personal niche is in depicting humanity, nature, current events and healing arts. She loves to portray human figures, especially stories of women in various roles in representational or abstracted forms. Her work focusses on humanity, nature and their protection based on everyday observations and happenings to capture the essence of the world and glory of nature. Her passions are gender equality, empowering women, healthcare research and help protect the environment. She creates paintings with shapes, lines, vibrant colors and layering on her substrate. She is evolving from representational to abstract painting by liberating herself from likeness to a new vagueness that is both spiritual and cathartic. She seeks clarity, energy and serenity in this process of blurring and losing the confines of representational imagery using acrylics and mixed media. She attempts to translate intangible thoughts, emotions and nature into images that tell stories in abstraction, subject to viewers’ personal interpretations. Her goals are to impart the quiet serenity and beauty of our universe as is or in abstraction and tell stories about people. Her use of color, light, composition, and presentation is constantly evolving for achieving these endpoints. Vasu usually works on a theme with a series of paintings which tell their unique stories while transforming the ordinary into something special. Her vibrantly colorful paintings vary in size and style while maintaining the mystique of the subject so it makes a lasting impression in the viewer’s eye. She regularly participates in group exhibitions and is a member of several art groups. She has had five solo exhibitions until now. She wins many awards every year, including several best of shows, first, second, third prizes and honorable mentions. One of her paintings on Covid was listed amongst 20 best paintings by Washington Post and was featured on the cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal by CDC. She’s been featured in several blogs, interviews and her art has been accepted in several publications. Her work has been adapted by a gallery to create lifestyle products.