Rashmi Talpade is a professional artist with a fine arts degree from Bombay, India with additional specialization in photography and ceramics. Her work has been exhibited and has been purchased by private collectors in USA, India, Middle East, and Europe.
Since immigrating to Connecticut in 1991, Rashmi has involved herself in the local art community and has exhibited her paintings, drawings, collages and installations in the New Haven and Hartford area as well as in New York. She has given lectures about her work statewide and in major corporate settings and organizations, including the New Britain Museum of American Art and GE Financial. Rashmi has received a visual arts fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
She has served as a co-coordinator and the director, for City-Wide Open Studios and is currently part of the Visual Arts Committee at Artspace, New Haven and the Visual Arts Advisory Group at the Arts Council of New Haven
She has explored the world around her through photo collages, ink drawings and paper sculptures. As a next chapter in her continuing exploration of daily life, Rashmi have created a series of dolls, which at first glance may seem decorative but they are characters of people surrounding her. Each doll is a unique creation, like every person in this world and she create each one of them with the textures, colors and forms in mind.