Distractor D

Throughout my work, I investigate coffee as a medium through various ways such as brewing methods, experimenting with drying times, and exposing it to the elements. Coffee as a medium affords me a multitude of technical variables and a set of connotative variables. I mix these variables with the social connotations coffee holds in our modern day society, to explore the parallels of human fragility and emotions to the evolution of current times and the passing of time. The way coffee moves on canvas holds an air of randomness, I have no definitive control on what the final outcome will be but I am able to add variables along the way to influence where I want it to go.

Like human behavior, my work is largely based in the abstract but I am able to guide the canvas by adding different variables in the making. Each painting takes anywhere between a month to 2 years to complete, and 10 to 120 layers of coffee. It’s a drink that changes through different cultures, a drink that’s come to represent so much more than itself; & it’s only fitting that coffee is used here in my study of human behavior.

Its chaos but it’s also structure, this juxtaposition mirroring the contradiction of trying to map out something so undeniably organic l...

Masters in Industrial Safety and Ergonomics, University of Utah

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Solo show on Mental Illness Awareness. Matti Sirivio Art Galleria, Muscat, May 2021
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore,Group Exhibition, 2021
Lacuna Art Festivals 2021, Group exhibition in Spain
INTOTO Virtual Exhibition, South Africa 2020
Matti Sirivio Art Galleria, Group Exhibition, Oman 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Polemical Zine, Virtual Exhibition, 2020
La Bienale de Venezia 2020
BUA! 2020,South Africa, 2020
Oman International Art Fair,Oman, 2018
Coffee Art Festival, London, 2016
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, Group Exhibition, 2016
Sublime Gallery, Painting with alternate mediums, Bangalore 2016