Padma Rajendran
Medium Sized Mirage
February 23 - March 29, 2024

Deanna Evans Projects is pleased to present Medium Sized Mirage, a solo exhibition of recent fiber work by Catskill-based artist Padma Rajendran. This is Rajendran’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view from February 23- March 29, 2024.

Medium Sized Mirage, is a culmination of new work by Rajendran that focuses on recalling episodes of vanishing time, stories, and events that have been forgotten since the start of the pandemic, which coincided with the birth of Rajendran’s daughter. The embrace of the soft, fragmented, and abstract elements in her pieces is an attempt to capture an understanding of the liminal space of shifting relationships to body and other beings, as well as the constantly shifting hierarchies of time.

This body of work was made in connection to drawing and the action of ritual within the home space, from the momentous event to the bountiful to the banal. In these soft works, Rajendran works with shapes and symbols that are familiar, but are concealed behind delicate roving fibers, dyed silk, ribbons, textured marks of dyed and found patterns, clunky plastic mesh, and acrylic felt. Medium Sized Mirage is a continued experimentation of clash and combination of material, patterning and structure. This is Rajendran’s first solo show in New York City since 2020.

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Padma Rajendran was born in Klang, Malaysia. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited at Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), Beers London (UK), Field Projects (New York), September Gallery (Hudson NY) and BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn) and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz NY). She lives and works in Catskill, NY. Her work has been highlighted in Chronogram Magazine, New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and The New York Times.

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Installation View

Padma Rajendran, 'Winter’s Light' 2024, Wool, silk, and acrylic felt, 18.5 x 17.5 in (47 x 44.5 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'Mysterious Moons' 2024, Wool, silk, denim, acrylic felt, ink and paper, 21 x 25 in (47 x 44.5 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'Mountain Moon' 2023, Wool, silk, acrylic felt and plastic mesh, 14.25 x 18.5 in (36.2 x 47 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'For C' 2023, Felted wool and silk, 10.5 x 18.5 in (26.7 x 47 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'months & years' 2024, Dye, ribbon, and stitching on silk, 21 x 18 in (53.3 x 45.7 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'E' 2023, Felted wool and silk, 16 x 15 in (40.6 x 38.1 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'the welcome blessing' 2024, Dye and stitching on silk, 57 x 56 in (144.8 x 142.2 cm) (20)

Padma Rajendran, 'Swirling Flower' 2023, Wool, silk, 13.5 x 15.5 in (34.3 x 39.4 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'in the doorway' 2023, Cheesecloth, wool and silk, 17.5 x 16.5 in (44.5 x 41.9 cm)

Padma Rajendran, 'summertime swim' 2023, Wool, silk and acrylic felt, 15.5 x 16.5 in (39.4 x 41.9 cm)

To inquire about the availability of any of these works please email info@deannaevansprojects.com.