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Painting by Padma Rajendran titled "Flower Tent & Locked Door" - 1.

Flower Tent & Locked Door Padma Rajendran

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Using resist and dye on shaped and sewn silk, Padma's paintings utilize a recurring library of symbols that represent time, memory, and the body.
Materials Resist, dye, and stitching on silk

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This piece glows with summer warmth and abundance in mark. This silk painting evokes memory and the moving of time and ceremony within texture, blending of colors, emerging forms and repeating flowers.

Padma Rajendran

About the Artist

Primarily working in a textile-based practice, Padma Rajendran paints dye and resist onto silk in order to craft representational paintings that reflect on immigrant storytelling, womanhood, and the concept of home as a tended space.

News and Notables
  • Solo exhibition, Unfamiliar Thresholds, SE Cooper Contemporary, 2022
  • Artist in Residence at Erie Arts & Culture, 2021
  • Interviewed in Off Canvas, A Woman's Thing, 2020