About

Known for her aggressive and hyper-chromatic paintings, Nidhi Agarwal’s newest works veer away from pure abstraction to explore figuration, caricature, calligraphy, and vocabulary. What may at first appear to be purely chaos quickly becomes legible and the artist’s choices and control are evident. Agarwal’s canvases are large, imparting a physical, almost performative, sense to the works and as the artist is small in stature, it seems she must wrestle with the images they contain. Faces and figures appear and then fade away, in a ballet in which no single element commands the center of …