TRISHLA JAIN
Akara Contemporary
1985
Trishla Jain (b. 1985) is a self-taught
artist who grew up in New Delhi and is now based in Palo Alto, California. She
describes herself as an abstract artist and meditation practitioner. She
studied English Literature at Stanford University (2007), followed by the
Teaching of English at Columbia University, New York (2008). In 2009, Jain
returned to India and to her childhood foray with the canvas. She had two
monographic exhibitions and several group shows between 2010 and 2014. Her
early works, autobiographical in nature, were mixed-media assemblages of text,
images and found objects. Over time the images dissolved into a choreographed
interplay of lines, dots and dashes, moving her work into metaphorical realms
of breathing, meditation and mindfulness.
In 2015, Jain returned to live in Palo
Alto with her family. Here, her daily meditation practice began to integrate
with her painting. Moving beyond the autobiographical and into the space of a
larger collective consciousness of the ‘present’, Jain's recent works harnesses
breath-awareness and ‘Samadhi’, the human mind’s innate capacity for deep,
undisturbed peace and focus. She describes her paintings as devotional practice
and pure meditation on canvas.
With the recent inclusion of Trishla Jain
to Akara’s list of represented artists, her first solo exhibition, ‘Nowness
In Time’ at Akara
Contemporary exhibited her most recent series ‘Yantra’ and ‘Tantra’, which she
has been creating since 2020. Both series converse with each other yet take on
individual identities of control and letting go, of pattern and abstraction, of
awareness and transcendence. Jain akins these works to the principle of yin and
yang, where ‘Yantra’ and ‘Tantra’ “behave as a pair of equal opposites - the
inhale and exhale - that balance and complement each other.”
The artist lives and works in Palo Alto,
California.
Images
Exhibitions
ART DUBAI 2024 February 28 - March 03 , 2024
INDIA ART FAIR 2024 February 01 - February 04 , 2024
Nowness In Time - Trishla Jain August 10 - September 18 , 2023
Press
Economic Times, August 08, 2023
Times of India, August 09, 2023
Architectural Digest, August 14, 2023
The Decor Journal, August 10, 2023
