Om Prakash Sharma attended Columbia University and the Art Students League in New York City on a Fulbright scholarship in 1964-1966. During his time there, he developed friendship with many well-known abstract artists, including Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, both of whom appreciate his approach to abstract painting. Later, in 1985, Prakash was one of the eight artists selected by the late California artist Lee Mullican for the exhibition ‘Neo-Tantra: Contemporary Indian Painting Inspired by Tradition’, presented at the UCLA Galleries in Los Angeles.

Anuradha Vikram, a prominent art curator and writer, who has written the introduction to the show catalogue implies, “Prakash has synthesized ancient South Asian visual and spiritual traditions with the pictorial and formal values of mid-century Modernism in the United States and Europe.” She says that his journey through the artistic process over the decades has created rhythmic patterns with color schemes that pull the intrinsic design process to achieve the ultimate artistic vision on the canvas. Anuradha further explains, “Energy radiates through the paintings of Om Prakash. Color and line pulsate with vitality. Prakash channels the life-forces within and around himself into paintings, whose precise geometries hover between abstraction and representation.”

In today’s tech wired world, the same artistic creative process has been seen in tech innovators like Alan Kay, who has played an instrumental role in the design of desktop GUI as we know it today. His team at Xerox PARC rolled out Star in 1981, a workstation that incorporated the primitive forms of windows, icons, and menus in its operating system and there is no doubt that Kay’s earlier work paved the route to today’s Microsoft and Apple GUIs. “Most creativity is a transition from one context into another, where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science,” Kay says. “Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in.” Anuradha Vikram concurs with this reality when she compares it with Om Prakash’s works. “To understand his approach in totality, one must apprehend the universally translatable element.”

Today, startups and other enterprises are mining through the layers of pastel and graphite to glean idealistic notions from the canvas. Samuel Bacharach, Co-founder, Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG) writes in his blog for Inc.com, “Successful artists remind us that entrepreneurship doesn’t just happen. Ideas need to be executed, pitched, and sold.” Citing Marcel Duchamp, a patron for Section d’Or, who once quoted, “I don't believe in art. I believe in artists,” Bacharach brings forth the crossroads, where an entrepreneur’s path intersects with that of an artist.

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