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Manick Sorcar
14565 W. 58th Place
720-935-0465
www.manicksorcar.com
Manick
Sorcar’s love with art and science started when he was very
young, painting the many back drops and doing lighting designs
for his father’s world-touring, elaborate magic shows on stage.
This eventually led him to become an electrical engineer specializing
in lighting design and an artist.
After
coming to the USA, his interest in science and art flourished
simultaneously. Today, by day, he is the full-time CEO/President
of Sorcar Engineering, which did the architectural lighting
designs for projects such as Denver International Airport
concourses, Colorado Convention Center, sport centers in Japan,
etc. By night, he is an award-winning artist, cartoonist,
animator and laserist.
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Manick enjoys
doing artwork in multi-media in various forms - ranging from traditional
waterpaint and acrylic paint, to tile-painting, tile-collage, news-art,
spice-art, Styrofoam sculptures, digital art etc. His artwork has
been showcased in many places including the University of Washington,
Seattle, Sewell Ballroom at the Denver Center for Performing Arts,
Jefferson County Library, Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado,
etc. In 1996, his news-art “Mother Teresa” and “Wellington Webb”
were selected as the “Art Show Pick” by The Denver Post, and in
2001 The Rocky Mountain News ran a two-page story with color pictures
of his home that was designed by him, along with his artworks in
it. In the same year, twenty-two patrons and the curator of the
Asian Art Association of the Denver Art Museum visited Sorcar residence
to admire his art.
Manick is the
animator and creator of several animation films, which won a host
of top awards including the Gold-Plaque at Chicago International
Film Festival, and Gold Medal at the International Film Festival
of New York. Based on children’s fables from India, these animation
films are regularly shown on PBS stations. In his recent works,
he uniquely married art with science to create a number of laser
animations and light sculptures that have been used on his stage
shows. He is twice the winner of ILDA Artistic Award from the International
Laser Display Association. First, at Italy, in 2006 for his “Enlightenment
of Buddha” for best use of lasers in a live performance, and the
second in March, 2008, for best laser photography for his laser
art “Reflection”. The trophy will be handed to Manick on September
10, 2008 at the 2008 ILDA Annual Conference and Award Ceremony on
board the Carnival Imagination, cruising the Eastern Caribbean from
September 8 to 13.
At the Arvada
Art Studio Tour of 2008, the visitors will get a glimpse of his
art of universal theme in multi-media, including laser art.
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