Gallery Artists
Sangetta Reddy
I started out looking for visual equivalents of certain intriguingly abstract ideas of Indian philosophy - the very abstract concept of Brahman. And it was when I turned my attention to the sound of chants that I began to be interested in the appearance of words. This led to the incorporation of the Devnagari (Sanskrit) script into my work.
Today, my primary interest lies in the formal language of visual expression as
it is carried forward by
the thrust or incisiveness of line,
the thickness of texture,
the resonance of color,
the acrobatic precision of balance,
the still, ambiguities of negative space,
the contrasts between transparency and opacity,
and the juiciness or spareness of ink.
It is in the layered and nuanced relationships between elements such as these, that I look each time, for the elusive presence of beauty.