Red Square by Sangeeta Reddy (2002) Collage

Born in1955, Hyderabad, India, painter and writer Sangeeta Reddy (www.sangeetareddyart.com) migrated to the United States in 1978 and continued her studies in art. She has pieces in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum and Littleton Art Museum and has been represented by various galleries in Aspen, Denver, New York, New Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad since the beginning of her 26-year career. Known primarily for her mixed media collages on paper and canvas, her abstract work was conceived from a challenge to visually parallel Sankara’s idea of Brahman in Advait philosophy and has now evolved into a formal language of deconstructed Devanagari calligraphy. Her artistic influences range widely from Indian weaving and textiles to Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Picasso (who were introduced to her at a very young age by her father’s interest in Western art), to her discovery (while studying in the US) of the Taos School of landscape painters as well as the Abstract expressionist painters, in particular, Rothko and De Kooning, Motherwell, Tapies and Diebenkorn. 'Red Square' (2002) was the first in a series of large scale Red pictures that Reddy painted in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Others include 'Are You Afraid of Red?' (2006) and 'The Energy of Red' (2008). "The color red was of special significance to me. It is the color that addresses the purest form of energy. In Indian practice, the red mark that is placed squarely on the forehead represents divine energy and is a symbol of awakening, awareness, and power." - SANGEETA REDDY Artist “Reddy’s large handsome abstract paintings, with their collaged, patched canvases and their weathered metallic patinas are like fragmented relics of antiquity, of memory and experience in explosive gestures that dazzle the eye. Traditional Indian art is figurative, iconographic, and narrative. Reddy’s work easily recalls Indian weaving and color, but she makes giant, deliberate strides away from representationalism, retaining the spirit rather than the form of her heritage.” - JENNIFER HEATH Rocky Mountain News 'Red Square' has been held in a private collection since 2002 and is being offered for sale for the first time since its original gallery presentation.

Collage:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:60 W x 57 H x 1.5 D in

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