Home-Coming

Decorative motifs resembling female anatomies—drawn from wallpaper patterns, fabrics, found furniture, and the architectural carvings of the artist’s immediate environment, such as brownstone facades—make their way into her paintings. She reimagines these floral baroque forms as abstract bodies, exploring their interiority and exteriority. She treats the body as a landscape of accumulated experiences, weaving personal mythologies by intertwining the intimate with the ornamental. In doing so, she challenges the conditioned self-image shaped by societal hierarchies of gender, caste, and diasporic dislocation. As she navigates this fragmented terrain of selfhood, she creates space for a multidimensional self—mapping and commemorating healing pathways from self-erasure to self-liberation.

Part of Pratt Institute’s MFA Thesis Exhibition Inside Out, Curated by Dejá Belardo, Apr 28 - May 9, 2025