Sukeshi Sondhi

Sukeshi is a multidisciplinary artist whose oeuvre includes painting, collage, installation, and performance art. Her artistic practice is informed by gender, identity, migration, and domesticity through performativity of the object in the everyday. 

Having travelled extensively from a young age and lived, studied, and worked in various parts of the world, her approach to art making is fluid and influenced by the pulse of her surroundings and interactions. Nostalgia, memory, and displacement play a significant role in her art practice. Visual and tactile memories trigger a response that result in preliminary sketches and notes, research and experimentation with varied mediums, materials, and forms. The process is cumulative and reflexive and remains an integral part of the end-product.

Sukeshi currently lives and works in Pittburgh (PA). She is exploring the concept and process of  gentrification in urban landscape as evidenced by changes in architecture, demographics, and subculture. For Sukeshi, urban landscapes are repositories of personal and collective memories. She is  exploring ways to render her perspective through the geometric abstraction using layers of acrylic, and graphite markings on canvas, burlap and corrugated cardboard. Her artwork engages in an interplay between the relationship of  line, color, form and space.  Sukeshi prefers that the meaning of a visual element not be definitive but, rather that it change according to the context and the perception of the viewer. Her work retains the elements of the autobiographical while being anonymous.