Artist Statement:
Lakshmi Sunder is a Bay area based artist whose abstractions are inspired by her Indian heritage and her life in Silicon Valley. Her process is a response to the chaos and wonder of contemporary life.Through abstract forms and vivid colors that cross aesthetics of different cultures, time periods, the natural and the digital world, her work is a true amalgamation of different cultures and identities. Her world melds together forms, patterns, and colors from these sources to create an illusion or abstraction or Maya on canvas. Her work uses metaphorical images to represent absolute truths, and their engagement with the invisible or intangible by means of visible representations. The visual poetry that evolves helps her slow down life that can get drowned by today’s hyperconsumption. Straddling between different cultures opened her heart and mind to new ways of thinking, doing, and living. She wants her art to do the same.