Recent work · 2019
Altars tohealth& disease
Organs painted in acrylic and dressed in the sequins, gold and beadwork of South Asian jewellery and clothing — by an artist who is also an internal medicine doctor.
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The work
Somalee’s work centers around allegories of the intersectionality of craft, medicine and the post-colonial South Asian attachment to embellishment.
Her recent work draws on her practice as an internal medicine doctor: acrylic paintings of organs, referencing anatomy, that become altars to health and disease — their surfaces embellished in the manner of jewellery and clothing in South Asia.
She keeps a studio practice in Oakland, California, alongside practising medicine.
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