Nature Morte is pleased to present a solo show of new works by Srishti Rana Menon.
The works on view are both paintings on canvas and watercolors on paper. Menon studied textile design at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and worked in the field for many years, collaborating with some of India’s best known fashion designers. Her road to the Fine Arts was intuitive and methodical, allowing the materials and their properties to guide her towards a style and imagery. Her works are rigorously abstract, defiant in their limited parameters, uncorrupted by fashions or politics.
The paintings start with a central focus from which layered forms breathe out of. Classical and controlled, they juxtapose simple shapes in precise colors on white fields which become energized, straining to contain pigments which seem to pulsate. A new development is the use of shaped canvases which combine pools of colors together into complex configurations. The watercolors on paper allow the artist additional freedom, spontaneity and serendipity, which are integral to their creation. For the first time, she has transposed the watercolors on to acrylic sheets, transforming them into the shaped lightboxes.

About the artist
Srishti Rana Menon (born 1979) graduated in Textile Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She went on to study at Winchester School of Art, UK. Srishti’s work is a reflection of her concern that spans two sides of her creative endeavor, with an intermixing of both textile design and its constituent media as well as the freedom of expression that emerges in her art practice with a slow and mindful process exploring concepts of containment, control, release and flow.
Srishti is a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust (2004) as well as a Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council residency (2011). Her first solo show was held in Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center (2017) and she has exhibited in various solo and group shows since then in Latitude 28 (2022), Nature Morte (2023), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (2011). Her work is in various private collections in India and abroad. The artist lives and works in Gurugram (Gurgaon), a suburb of New Delhi.
This exhibition will take place in Nature Morte’s Delhi gallery space at the Dhan Mill compound, 100 Feet Rd, Chhatarpur Hills, New Delhi. The hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 11am to 7pm and the gallery is closed on Mondays. For more information on the artist or the works in the exhibition please visit our website at www.naturemorte.com or contact us at info@naturemorte.com. For press related inquiries and high resolution images, please contact archive@naturemorte.com.