Prabhavathi Meppayil (born 1965) is an Indian abstract artist known for her modernist and minimalist paintings, and installation art.
[4] Meppayil established her studio on Avenue Road in Bangalore, an area with a concentration of goldsmiths.
[2] In some works, she has used the traditional thinnam, jewellers' steel tools, to create microscopic indents, both horizontal and vertical, across the gesso.
[6] In Shanay Jhaveri's view, the use of a reduced colour palette and visual considerations of the grid is a dialogue between Western Modernism of the 1950s and 1960s and contemporary South Asian art, expressing the clashing aesthetics of Indian neoliberalism versus the progressive ideals of Modernism.
[6] Other reviewers have likened Meppayil's abstractions to those of Conceptual Minimalism and the Italian Pittura Segnica, evoking among others Gastone Novelli.