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June 19: Members’ Work
July 17: Carole Beadle, fiber sculpture

VIRTUAL MEETING
SAGARIKA SUNDARAM
APRIL 17, 2024 aT 7PM 
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Artist statement:
Sagarika Sundaram’s work crosses multiple genres of visual art using hand-dyed raw natural fiber. Layered wall-based and free-standing works unite a painter’s sense of color, a sculptor’s perception of space, and a dancer’s feeling for movement. 

Drawing extensively on natural imagery, Sundaram’s textile reliefs and complex, three-dimensional hanging installations bind together organic and constructed forms. These works meditate on the impossibility of separating the human from the natural and the interior from the exterior, suggesting the intertwined nature of reality. The scale of these works, defying dimensions as they climb from floors to walls and into the air, disclose the intense investment of labor that goes into their making, harkening back to the early days when such work was wrought entirely by hand. Deeply rooted in the landscapes that sheep-herders call home, wools and dyes from as far as the Himalayas and as near as the Hudson Valley form the raw materials for the ancient felt-making techniques that drive the construction of these works.

This collision of worlds—between the local and global, the ancient and modern, and the human
and natural—speaks to Sundaram’s own heritage, growing up between India and Dubai, and to the harmonious marriage of labor, materials, and form that underlie thousands of years of textile
tradition.

Bio:
Sagarika Sundaram (b. 1986, Kolkata, India) creates sculpture, relief works and installation using raw natural fiber and dyes. In 2023, Sundaram’s debut solo show exhibited at Palo Gallery in New York City. In 2023, Sundaram’s work was also shown at the Al Held Foundation with River Valley Arts Collective, the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, the British Textile Biennial and Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2024 she will participate in Bronx Calling: The Seventh AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Sundaram’s work has been presented at The Armory Show in New York (2022, 2023) and at Frieze London (2023) with Nature Morte Gallery. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times and ARTnews, while her practice has been featured by PBS, Artnet News, and on the cover of Fiber Art Now Journal. Sundaram graduated with an MFA in Textiles from Parsons / The New School, NY. She studied at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and at MICA in Baltimore. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, and a Senior Fellow at Silver Art Projects in New York City. \