Sahana Ramakrishnan all set for her visit to India

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Sahana’s work will be showcased in India this year along with interesting installations across the city
by Shrutee K/DNS
Indian born and Singapore-raised, Sahana Ramakrishnan is a young painter who joins a lineage of South Asian artists living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Having obtained her BFA in Painting in 2015 from the Rhode Island School of Design, Sahana is also the recipient of the Yale/Norfolk Fellowship Award and the Florence Lief Grant from RISD. Immediately upon graduation, Sahana’s “You Wan Sum” was snapped up for a show at Front Art Space in New York from over 900 entries. Her work has since fascinated the discerning eye of other galleries in the U.S. such as Twelve Gates Arts, A.I.R. Gallery and Rabbithole.
Sahana’s work thrives off the drama that exists in cultural melting pots. Through drawing, painting and sculpture she creates delicately decadent worlds in which the subject’s pleasure or pain is left for the viewer to interpret. Her worlds are inspired by the vibrant colors and flattened, narrative spaces of Rajput and Mughal paintings, as well as the infinitely active surfaces of Tibetan Thangka paintings. Sahana Ramakrishnan’s inspiration ranges from art historical sources as well as contemporary comics and cartoons that explore the relationship between nihilism and humor such as Rick and Morty, Superjail and the works of Gary Larson. Fascinated with the influence religion, myth, and fiction have on our daily lives, she explores how the human body traverses a space that straddles the fantastical and the mundane. She marries the freakish, the funny, and the beautiful in images that simultaneously glorify and laugh at the human body. Many of her paintings, drawings, and prints are vibrant with grotesque imagery - bodies grab, eat, caress, and spill out of one another in an exaggerated and literal interpretation of our closeness with other beings on this planet. Sahana's images combine observation and invention. She draws from life, observing people around her and allowing her imagination to insert into her drawings elements of surreal or bizarre narratives she has encountered. Her inspiration ranges from human biology and anatomy to her experiences in tropical reefs and rainforests; from Buddhist and Hindu philosophy to the diversity and drama in the lives of people she interacts with everyday.
To see more of the artist’s work, please visit sahana-ramakrishnan.com

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