"Moonlight in the Valley, Rubber and Raw Silk #3, Rubber and Raw Silk #4" by Sangeeta Reddy

My work traverses gaps of memory and identity as experienced between my Indian upbringing and as an immigrant to the United States. This work honors the streets of India and the past lives and aesthetics of humble everyday materials. I acknowledge the ever-present grit of the street, the starkness and inequity, cultural extremes, socio economic disparity, juxtaposing raw silk alongside strips of re-cycled inner tubes reminiscent of scrap collectors, sidewalk cobblers and bicycle repair stops which in turn echo the socio-political charge to colonial freedom fighters of resistance through simplicity and self-sufficiency, engaging contemporary conversation of culture and migration.

Artist's Bio:

Sangeeta Reddy (b. 1955, Hyderabad, India) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose body of work is filtered through her first-generation immigrant experience, forever creating between two cultures in which Modernism's legacies are engaged through abstraction and representation. Reddy studied English literature and philosophy at the University of Mumbai, India, and has completed 7 years of fine arts studies between the United States and India. She migrated to the United States in 1978, and currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Reddy has participated in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Aspen, Denver, New York, Santa Fe, Sarajevo, New Delhi, Chennai, and Hyderabad.