I Breathe with You! @ Umass
I Breathe With You was an expression on the wrongful loss of life for young African American teen from NY in the hands of the police force.
The Many Heads of Ravana
My portraits trace power in the current form, shaped by history, cultural and social wiring. It explores the human condition of duality in strife between power and powerlessness. My "Ravana" is depicted as a woman. The ten heads of Ravana with different expressions from the series of portraits below. I often find references in real life, forms that resonate popular myth. What else is a myth if not an attempt to understand the ever shifting face of reality with subjective interpretations and unrequited envisioning of aspirational entities?
The New Original
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.” ― Coco Chanel My journey in art and design started in the Rag industry on 7th Av., as a staff artist…
Aham Bramhasi
“Aham Bramhasi” literally translates to “I am God” - an utterance used to explain the unity of macrocosm and microcosm – a state attainable only when the ego is overcome.…
Typecast
Tiger Tiger, mixed media on re purposed canvas 36x36 inchesColor Uncode, silk screen on molded aluminum 12x24 inchesI'm a Lot like You, calligraphic painting at Alpha Art GalleryHide in Plain…
Politically Incorrect Observations
A balmy 70 degrees on Christmas eve in these parts, El Niño and all, was a sign of changing tides. Noticed a few changing sights and sounds of the Holidays…
Hide in Plain Sight
If the function of religion in society has conventionally been to offer a basis for thoughts and actions, allowing people to relate, bond and abide by a common principal and…
Eye for an Eye, studio 2015
Lately my focus has been on the creative process itself. How the thoughts manifest - discipline of the physical making of the artwork from a place of humility and preparedness…
Torpedo Art Factory during Holidays 2015
Is there such a thing as a successful artist, or does the measure of success lie in the art itself? Van Gogh’s struggle with his inner daemons and his last…
Simulate the Real
These works reflect Postmodern obliteration of the distinctions of gender, race, and class that structured modern societies in a new postmodern consumer, media, and high tech society; the mutating roles…