Artist

Biography

Originally from India, raised in Chicago, lived in Cali before Brooklyn, Bombay while Brooklyn and back to Cali.

Multicultural Indian-American upbringing, improvisational music, relationship with nature, fascination with the human body, and classical training are reflected in the continuous intersection of sound, culture, landscape, figure, abstract and tradition, in my work.

my natural inclination towards art was evident as a child who drew on library books, closet walls, leather sofas and wooden cabinets, and was called bad behavior and retarded for doing so. So I went and got a degree in Biochem at the University of Redlands, owned and operated my own Fine Art Gallery, Vegan Restaurant & Jazz Bar "Galoka" in La Jolla, and hosted the first "Governors Island Art Fair" in NYC.

My earliest training was in the form of imitating my father sketching figures and painting landscapes. However, it wasn’t until she attended the Academy of Art University, San Francisco that she found her impressionistic and expressionistic voice with the influence of Brian Blood and Bill Maughn.
I use art to express the cultural identity and spiritual vision that results from ancestral heritage overlapping with modern lifestyles and personal experiences in a way that the current vocabulary can not yet describe. My work further inspires me to a lifelong commitment to giving voice to beauty, violence, spirituality, wisdom and healing of my existence that is shared universally.