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Painting by Padma Rajendran titled "Shaded Cup/ Under the Tree's Shadow" - 1.

Shaded Cup/ Under the Tree's Shadow Padma Rajendran

$2,825

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.
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Materials Resist, dye, and stitching on silk
29 x 33

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This shaped silk painting holds a collaged piece of varying silk in the upper left corner. I am interested in the way different fibers hold the dye.

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