About The Artist
Born in Bengal, India in 1951, Arjuna Noor found artistic inspiration early in life amidst the stark poverty of his native country. In the mid-1970s he received his BA with honors in English Literature before pursuing his dream to leave India and migrate to America.
In 1978 he moved to a community in the Sierra foothills of Northern California where he embraced the spiritual movement of 1970s. Living an austere but highly disciplined life of a monk, Arjuna practiced a life of contemplation and meditation. With the encouragement of one of his spiritual teachers who embodied the balance of eastern and western values, Arjuna decided to take up the challenge of a new discipline - the newly emerging field of personal computers. He joined Apple Computer in 1985 at a critical moment of the information revolution and the emergence of multimedia. Armed with the technology and multimedia knowledge he gained at Apple, Arjuna joined the prestigious Pratt Arts Institute in Brooklyn, NY where he designed the school's first multimedia program while simultaneously taking classes to hone his own art skills.
In 1992, Arjuna embarked on a spiritual odyssey to a sacred mountain (Mt. Kailas) in the heart of Tibet that was to profoundly transform him. He took thousands of photographs during the 3 month journey through remote Himalayan passes, monasteries and temples. Upon returning from Tibet, Arjuna shifted the direction of his work from multimedia to strategic Internet design.
In 1999, Arjuna began exploring his passion for digital fine art in earnest. He uses the camera as a sketch pad for his images. Using digital brushes and a virtual canvas he abstracts from that photographic reality to the realm of visual archetypes. He then begins a process of working with them through a series of 'progressive intensity' using digital techniques and tools.
"The poetry of forms and formlessness - revelations of light and color in a dance of expression, revealing new vistas perhaps new ways of seeing life - computers allow me an unsurpassed freedom that simultaneously demands an empirical rigor and a creative spirit. My art is a celebration of the spirit, the mystery of that which animates conditional existence. Ultimately, I am inspired to transcend the medium and into that vision of luminosity." Arjuna is also a master printer proficient in color management and printing technologies. He owns his own publishing company where he uses a state-of-the-art giclee printer for maintaining the highest quality control over his art. He prints his art on hi-gamut canvas and art paper using, archival pigment inks.
In 2003 Arjuna was selected as one of the first digital fine artist at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts Artist Gallery. Arjuna is passionate about the power of still images and their ability to exude energy and he works to create the archetypal response in his viewers calling his art "Art for the Spirit".
In 2006 Arjuna began to experiment with art and the physical power of light. The result was MOODSPACE, an exclusively patented technology that combines art and design with high-efficiency LED lights. When the lights are projected on to the art, the fused layers within the piece begin to shift and transform in front of the viewers eyes. MOODSPACE has the power to transform entire rooms into realms of conscious space. In March of 2007 Arjuna launched his showroom in the Pacific Design Center, offering Limited Editions and Digital Originals of his works.