Shyama Golden’s oil, acrylic, and iPad paintings use figuration to explore the complex and layered ways identity is experienced, performed, and reinforced. The subjects she depicts are a combination of real and imagined people, with masks and animals often functioning as metaphors for human social dynamics. One series Shyama Golden is working on involves taking characters used in traditional Sri Lankan folk dances, and placing them in contemporary Americana scenes, and another places people she knows in infinite abstract pattern worlds.
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