Kamiesha Garbadawala
Medium: Painting Studio Location: Artist Studios at 43-01 22nd Street - Studio# 451 43-01 22nd Street Phone: 917-568-6943 Email: info@kamiesha.com Website:: http://kamiesha.com/ Artist Bio: Kamiesha Garbadawala is a Jamaica born, New York City-based Visual Artist and graduate of The Parsons School of Design. The former accessories designer, launched a celebrated line of handbags with Barneys New York before she was compelled by a set of significant life events to begin anew. Her creative passion has reemerged and flourishes as the gestural and atmospheric works resulting from meditative, stream-of-consciousness painting. Previously exhibited as a part of SVA's Summer Residency and Open Studios 2017, and Creative Mischief by the National Academy Museum 2017, Kamiesha was selected for a solo exhibition entitled Awakening in New York City to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and as a part of Arteponte's group exhibition at SCOPE, during Miami Art Week 2017. Kamiesha participated in Columbia University School of the Arts' Summer Painting Intensive Program in June 2018, while her show Sugarcane debuted at Galleria Ca' d'Oro Chelsea during the summer of 2018. Kamiesha proudly donated her painting "Home" in October 2018 to benefit the Baryshnikov Arts Center Fall Fete Art Auction injunction with Paddle8, curated by Natasha Schlesinger of Art Muse NY. Artist Statement: Kamiesha Garbadawala's work is an exploration of life experiences and conveyance of emotion through art. Turning personal trauma and loss into strength and power through self-examination, she forges impassioned compositions filled with complexity, nuance and gravity. Kamiesha employs paintbrush and palette knives on heavy body acrylic and oil paint to create wide planes of color and gestural markings, subconsciously in an uninhibited performance, having found a conduit for expression within opaque layers intuitively smoothed over negative space. Kamiesha turns to the canvas in search of the security found in a world that is created and controlled by her own hand. All images and text copyright Kamiesha Garbadawala