SUMAKSHI SINGH

An installation of fragile marine and botanical specimens created with hair-like, black thread, using traditional embroidery techniques. However, while in the embroidering act the image is literally tied down to its ground (fabric), here Singh removes the base, leaving the image itself levitating and permeated with space, like a drawing on air. These ethereal armatures are flattened, like a significant flower pressed between the pages of a book evoking the tender structures of preserved memories.

Sumakshi  Singh is an artist and an educator. Her interactive installations, paintings, drawings, threadwork and sculptures have been presented in gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide. Singh received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a BFA from Maharaja Sayajiro University, Baroda, India. Artist residencies include Mac Dowell Colony- USA, Djerassi Foundation -USA, Fondazione Pistolleto – Italy, Camargo Foundation – France, Skowhegan – USA, CAMAC – France and Sculpture Space – USA.