Painting 2/D, BIPOC-Owned, New to One of a Kind
Priya Rama Art
Original abstract paintings, limited prints
Priya Rama’s art is born from her chronic migraines. When one begins, along with the pain and pressure, colors and shapes appear in her mind’s eye. These get transformed into hyperchromatic paintings, making public what is otherwise a private experience.
An abstract expressionist, her paintings highlight a spontaneous, intuitive, and personal mark-making, with rich color and palpable texture. Drawing upon inside and outside lived experiences and memories, her works exist somewhere between reality and dreamlike states of consciousness. Her paintings especially explore dualities– of pain/beauty, emphatic color/delicate brush lines, rich details/quiet resting spots, spontaneity/deliberate placement, translucency/opacity, and contemplation/assertion.
Priya thinks of her paintings as self-portraits, because as she says, “My art is part of me and I am part of my art”. She adds, “My paintings emerge from within. They are part of an ongoing conversation with myself that I have had since my childhood. The process is entirely natural, one that I cannot separate from myself. My paintings also embrace that which is deeply-rooted within me. Having grown up in India, I am strongly drawn to color and the pattern-making and mindfulness of traditional, south Indian dot kolams”.
Priya has been interviewed for CBS ‘Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley”, which aired on February 16, 2020, as well as WebMD. She has also been interviewed for multiple print and online publications, as well as radio, and has presented to several art therapy groups. Priya’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections around the country.
An abstract expressionist, her paintings highlight a spontaneous, intuitive, and personal mark-making, with rich color and palpable texture. Drawing upon inside and outside lived experiences and memories, her works exist somewhere between reality and dreamlike states of consciousness. Her paintings especially explore dualities– of pain/beauty, emphatic color/delicate brush lines, rich details/quiet resting spots, spontaneity/deliberate placement, translucency/opacity, and contemplation/assertion.
Priya thinks of her paintings as self-portraits, because as she says, “My art is part of me and I am part of my art”. She adds, “My paintings emerge from within. They are part of an ongoing conversation with myself that I have had since my childhood. The process is entirely natural, one that I cannot separate from myself. My paintings also embrace that which is deeply-rooted within me. Having grown up in India, I am strongly drawn to color and the pattern-making and mindfulness of traditional, south Indian dot kolams”.
Priya has been interviewed for CBS ‘Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley”, which aired on February 16, 2020, as well as WebMD. She has also been interviewed for multiple print and online publications, as well as radio, and has presented to several art therapy groups. Priya’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections around the country.
