Srishti Dass (1999) is an abstract painter and drawer who resides in New York. She recently graduated from the School of Visual Arts and is currently working in Brooklyn.

Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Dass takes inspiration from the world around her. Her drawings are the tangible result of introspection. She finds ways to connect her inner anxieties and subconscious to the outer world around her. People, places, colors, nature, all affect her art directly. Using intricate pattern making and symbols, she is trying to help give viewers space to explore their inner thoughts. In a world built around the idea of capitalism and working till you’re burnt out, she’s trying to create safe environments to help others leave the path of binary thinking and question the bubble that humans are living in.

Dass looks at her works as empowering. Giving womxn (and herself ) a chance to realize their position in this world that’s built against us. There is an urgency she’s trying to capture. 

The works are a way for her to learn about herself; helping her explore the deeper anxieties that lead to certain decision making. Pattern-making is a way to get to those subconscious thoughts. The repetition becomes rhythmic, in a harmony with the surroundings. The hand makes the patterns as the mind wanders. A sense of obsession that won’t go away. A desire or need to keep filling the shapes and loop the pattern. She calls her drawings the tangible result of introspection. This also means that every new viewer will have a different reaction and connection to it; their own story.  That’s why she feels it’s pointless to write about the meaning of her work because the “meaning” ends when the work goes to the public. The “meaning” becomes an experience.