DVAA Member since 2022

Suji Kanneganti

About:

Suji is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on abstracting internal experiences, the invisible, into the physical. Often times, her work also has a subtle interactive quality, be it with the viewer and/or the environment, including light or motion activated materials, installations that require careful looking, and the like.

A background in science and psychology influences her process to be led by curiosity...often being experimental, intuitive, and organic..

Artist Statement:

My process often starts with a simple musing with material
play
a breadcrumb trail
a search for the “click” between what I’m feeling, remembering,
and what I am seeing in front of me.

I am trying to uncover, materialize the connection between internal and external reality.

I believe our inner worlds, our emotional experiences are much more complex than what we can currently put to language.
I also believe our individual experiences hold a common thread that runs between us all.

I am not interested in telling you what to think or feel.

My hope is for the artwork to stir something within the viewer through open-ended abstraction.
My hope is for the viewer to go within and explore that stirred space within themselves.

This shared space between me, art, and audience is what I am ultimately curious about.

My process is intuitive and experimental. I avoid preconceived concepts with the intention of channeling something deeper that exists beyond language and logic.

In the face of fast culture and highbrow art, I think many of us have lost connection to our innermost selves, and thus to each other...I consider my process a stance against that current, and my art as an invitation for the viewer to do the same.