Artist Interview with Neha Panicker: Chasing Curiosity
MixMuse had the pleasure of collaborating with abstract painter Neha Panicker to create this artist interview and video. Her most recent work is imbued with the complexity and beauty of her South Indian linguistic heritage and culture. She explores the intersection of culture, linguistics, and visual vocabulary that simultaneously meet and separate. Amidst this tension, Panicker forms a new, alternative syntax of fragments. In her pulled strokes of vibrant colors is her South Indian identity and language, what she calls the “fractures” of verbal language. Her paintings pull viewers to the edges of the frame nearly falling off the broad swirls and sometimes tight curls of her incomplete abstracted forms. Panicker’s mostly asymmetrical compositions are characterized by unbroken gestures, and in them, all the silences of language meet us. She depicts a language of origination slowly slipping from utterance and articulation into memory, and an artist not only trying to make meaning of the disappearing but to hold onto what may remain. I hope you will watch this video. Thanks!
Neha Panicker, Scriptscapes: Abstract Odes To South Indian Letterforms, on view through July 11, 2024 at Kirkland Arts Center Gallery in Kirkland, WA. Interviewed and recorded by Star Rush, produced by MixMuse.
