Image Credit - Galerie Isa
Anoushka Mirchandani, a young painter and artist from India who now resides in the US, creates intimate portraits of what it's like to be a woman in the modern world.
Her figurative landscapes have numerous opaque patterns that serve as a nod to her patchwork identity as an artist, an Indian, an immigrant, a woman, reminding the viewer of the plurality in our identities. Her work explores the micro-tensions and identity transformations that are inherent in code-switching and assimilation in a foreign country by probing lineage, personal history, cultural, and sociopolitical settings via a diasporic perspective. She is fascinated by the mindscape of women as they tackle complex emotions of vulnerability, shame, nostalgia etc. on their respective paths of self-discovery. Her physical environment and the cultural context at the time of creation shape her work, and Anoushka transmutes her understanding of that specific time and place into the painting itself.
Anoushka was chosen by Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organisation in the US, to be a showcase visual artist in 2017 and 2018. She was chosen to exhibit her paintings at State Senator Scott Wiener's official offices in California in 2019. She received the San Francisco Artist Grant (SFA) as of May 2022 from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has taken part in a number of residencies, including The Wassaic Project, the Digital Residency at Silver Arts Projects, Global Coralition, KYTA, and the Aegean Idea Lab. Mirchandani recently made her debut with Yossi Milo Gallery, at The Armory Show in New York (2022) and Untitled Art in Miami (2022), where she exhibited two works and one work, respectively.