Srishti Rana Menon
1979
Menon’s solo exhibitions include ‘Sublime Revelations’, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2017) and ‘Recollections’, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland (2011). She has exhibited at the Portsmouth University (2006), Winchester School of Art (2005), and British Council, New Delhi (2004).
She is a Charles Wallace Scholar and received the ProHelvetia, Swiss Arts Council Residency (2010). She was awarded the Wade Asia Silver Award (2018) and Artreach India Teaching Residency (2018 – 2019). She has been a visiting faculty and jury member at several design schools including the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and Kurukshetra, and worked with the Centre for Environment Education; British Council in India; Rajka Designs Pvt. Ltd., and designer-duo Abraham & Thakore.
Inspired by post-war abstractionists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Mark Rothko, and Cy Twombly, Delhi based textile designer turned artist Srishti Rana Menon’s gestural strokes make constellations on the canvas, questioning the inherent nature of the medium. Her overflowing forms test the surface tension as the pigments dissipate and settle in between the minute ridges of the grain, arranging themselves naturally around the canvas’ centre of gravity. Ripe with the possibility of unification, various smooth gradations emanate outward from a dense centre like peeling layers leading the eye to a revelation.
