The Arch Motel Project
Series
2005-current
Medium: Photography / Found Objects / Mix Media
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This project explores the duality of cultures that coincide in a unique setting along the American landscape. Named after my first home, The Arch Motel. Hundreds of photos have been created across the US since 2006.
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Parts Of This Series Were On View:
Joseloff Gallery - Hartford, CT (2023)
The Gateway Project - Newark, NJ (2015)
Aicon Gallery - NYC (2015)
Smithsonian, Museum of Natural History - Washington, D.C. (2014)
White Washed
Series
2015-2018
Medium: Collage & Silkscreen on Found Lithographs
Sizes vary; 30"x40" (pictured)
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Exploring the levels of domination and control and how they are disguised within layers of history.
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Parts Of This Series Were On View:
Mission Cultral Center - San Francisco, CA (2019)
Southern Exposure - San Francisco, CA (2018)
Aicon Gallery - NYC (2015)
Heems - Damn Girl (2015)
*PMH
Series
2002-current
Medium: Digital Print / Silkscreen on paper and Vinyl
Sizes Vary
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Created to cut through and contrast the hard edged, aggressive, graffiti around NY at the time.
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Parts Of This Series Were On View:
Queens, Bombay, Brampton, Bangalore, Wichita, Delhi, Southall, San Francisco, Oakland, Tampa, Puducherry, Los Angeles, El Paso, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Nishi Kasai, Seoul
Real Estate - Crime (2014)
Visions and Nightmares
Series
2020
Medium: Acrylic over Found Object
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This series (ThisOnly) consists of a wearable, zine and mix media pieces. More information can be found here »
Through the filter of legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One this study explores the aesthetic and socio political strides of Black cultural empowerment within tyrannical 1980s NYC, national and global politics.
Previously On View:
Nada House - NYC (2021)
Simone Subal Gallery - NYC (2021)
Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca, NY (2022)
Fast Friends
2005
Medium: Illustration
$ Magic Dollar $
Series
2021
Tracing the influence of the “Magic Dollar” and its movement around the world through the military-industrial complex.
This series (ThisOnly) consists of found objects, tote bag and a digital print. More information can be found here »
#WhitePeopleDoingYoga
2014-current
Medium: Found Objects
Sizes vary; 33 ft x 18 ft
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This project explores the commercialization and commodification of a culture through yoga ephemera. Full Artist Statement »
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Previously On View:
Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca, NY (2022)
Human Resources - Los Angeles, CA (2019)
Headlands Center for the Arts - Sausalito, CA (2015)
Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, CA (2014)
Why You So Negative?
2019
An extension of the installation, #WhitePeopleDoingYoga, while bringing you behind the experience of showing this installation, with two art institutions — The Asian Art Museum (SF) and The Cleveland Art Museum — all through an assemblage of collected printed material.
More about the project here »
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Previously On View:
Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca, NY (2022)
Human Resources - Los Angeles, CA (2019)
Native Tongue
Series
2015
Medium: Embroidered patch on giclée print
Size: 12" x 15"
Structural Rewards/ Sly Baba
Series
2016
Medium: Assemblage / Wearable
Sizes vary; 5.5" x 4" x 1"
See To Day
2018
A collection of film posters, collected in Bangalore, rendered in a 4 color Risograph monograph. The pieces that were selected from the collection consists of mostly American, Horror, East Asian and Western-inspired films.
50 pp | 11 by 17 inches , Perfect-bound & Perforated, First edition of 100, hand numbered
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NY Art Book Fair (2018)
SF Art Book Fair (2018)
Private Property
Series
2021
Exploring the history and politics surrounding concepts of “intellectual property” and “private property” through media, print, and signage. These concepts presented themselves as the project examines the institutional pathology behind today’s glaring “vaccine apartheid” expressed by the disproportionate severity of the Covid crisis upon the developing world.
Medium: “Found Object” with Acrylic
Size: 12 x 18 x 0.75 in.
This series (ThisOnly) consists of a mix media pieces, risograph print and digital print. More information can be found here »
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Previously On View:
NADA House - NYC (2021)
Home of the Brave
Series
2017, 2018
Medium: Digital Projections and print ephemera
A collaborative performance with Vijay Iyer.
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Previously On View:
The Kitchen - NYC (2018)
SFJAZZ - San Francisco, CA (2018)
Ojai Festival (2018) - Ojai, CA (2017)
SFJAZZ - San Francisco, CA (2017)
Compartmentalize
Series
2017
Medium: Assemblage
Sizes vary; 34" x 36"
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Exploring the juxtapositions through found material, which include film posters, billboard advertisements and yoga mats.
Native Stats
Series
2013
Medium: Baseball cards; Assemblage, Collage, Photography
Created Work For Various Artists
Creating album covers, packaging, posters, and other material for various artists which include: Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Das Racist, Rekha Malhotra,
Vivek Bald, Talvin Singh, Heems, Elephant Stone, Koushik, Ashim Ahluwalia