Give Me The Words, 2014
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Bud, 2014
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Puzzle with Multiple Solutions Installation
Loving the Noumenon Installation shot
Listening to I LOVE YOU copy
Wrestling with an Angle
Shakti
Seeker
“Loving the Noumenon” is Roma Devanbu’s first solo show at Axis Gallery.
Devanbu’s deeply rooted devotional life is matched by a logical, practical, even skeptical side, creating a deep quandary. How can we love what we can not know exists? In “Loving the Noumenon” Devanbu presents drawings, paintings, sculpture and interactive installations which embrace, and invite engagement with, this paradox.
Devanbu’s paintings and drawings are often structurally symmetrical, suggesting the formality of a sacred space or object. Exuberant pattern and texture create a glossolalia of uncorked visual prayer, flowing outward from an empty or open center. Devanbu says “The central space is a visual question, a place reserved for the thing that can not be seen or known.”
Devanbu has a BFA from Carnegie- Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York, NY. She spent a year doing graduate work in Art and Indian Art History at the Maharaja Sayajirao Univertity of Baroda in Gujurat, India. Her work has been influenced by extensive travels in Europe and Asia.