Swapna Das
Artist Statement
Swapna Das has always been in a perpetual journey of self-exploration. Her spiritual practice has continuously guided and fueled her desire to discover the true essence of art and its significance in her existence. She believes that her art encompasses the profound idea that spirituality and creativity are intertwined. Her charcoal drawings showed the representation of the lifecycle in which humans experience collective emotion of distress and vulnerability. They also represent the unpleasant phase of low life conditions in which humans lose control in their life. Looking for depth and deeper meaning she started experimenting with ceramics sculpture which added a new dimension and an unusual perspective to all the organic complex and abstract elements in her creations. She is extremely thrilled to witness and share the evolution of my two dimensional work into a three dimensional structure where the abstraction of elements resembling tubes, strings and cords entangling with each other are vibrant and alive. She feels that her sculptures have a uniqueness in showing that human life can be extremely delicate and full of intricacy and inconsistency.
Bio
Swapna Das is a visual Artist (Painting/ Drawing/ Ceramics), currently living in Phoenix, Arizona. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India where she did her Bachelor of Fine Arts. After moving to the USA in 2011, she studied Master of Fine Arts at Arizona State University which offered her a new dimension in life. Post-graduation, she is pursuing her art career by actively participating in various group exhibitions and also has held three solo exhibitions in Phoenix, Arizona. Her works have also been featured in museums and gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally, in New Delhi, India, Renmin University of China in Beijing and in Hudson, New York. Currently, she has been working as an adjunct faculty in Mesa Community College since 2016.