Oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal and graphite

you will be able to see Shruti’s process including tools, materials and set up. There will be works-in-progress as well as completed work for sale.

My works are inspired by everyday life experiences, conversations and personal memory. For the last two years social distancing and isolation brought me back to seeing my immediate surroundings more closely in a more meaningful and meditative way. Regular mundane domestic works, simple objects, a forgotten corner of a table or an empty bowl became the allegory of anxiety, attachment and tension of personal struggle with alienation in everyday life. In these works I am trying to reinvent a feeling of the world I inhabit in terms of the formal properties of the material and within the context of an artistic journey which celebrates the union of observation, invention, and memory. Interior space, everyday used objects, cell phones, laptops, boxes, books and humans take the center stage in my works. Together they create an ominous dimension beyond the physicality of the objects and settings and transforms objects and space into mystical source of thought.

Shruti Ghatak is a visual artist who lives and works in Shoreline, WA. Shruti was born and raised in India and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from New York Studio School, NY. She has an interdisciplinary background and studied both Science and Art with the belief that crossing boundary sometimes open up new way of seeing.