Krati Doshi
Degree: Master of Fine Arts
University: Kingston School of Art
Graduation Year: 2023
New Blood Art Commentary
Echo and seam in the empathy of forms and colours chiming. The entities – or composites, or individuals – that make up each work transit in a rhythmic scattering, an errant flow. Repetition conjures memory here. In the currents that sometimes track Krati Doshi’s forms off the side of the frame you can see why she names contemporary US artist Heather Day as an influence, whose freedom of expression is exactly achieved by a mediated placement of mark and colour – and who calls her paintings “mind maps”. Krati Doshi’s is also a precise choreography, bringing to mind influences Joan Miro and Wassily Kandisky too. In her work there’s a sense of the embryonic: what emerges through the therapeutic and analytic, the spontaneous and contemplative.
Artist Statement
My recent practice is focused on abstract paintings, developing a visual language using repetition, colour, form and mark making. I work on a range of surfaces including paper, board and canvas, using mixed media techniques through a combination of screen-print, mono-print, collage, acrylic, pastels, oil pastels, pens, graphite.
For me, my work is a way to communicate and explore the Self (the Psyche as a whole) by investigating the balance between the controlled and uncontrolled. The process of my work includes spontaneous actions of painting or using collage, followed by analysed mark making. The abstract paintings are influenced by artists like Joan Miro, Kandinsky, Heather Day, to name a few. I am interested in the idea of art being a medium to contemplate and to express the inner self. I consider these abstract paintings to be therapeutic for myself and the audience, wanting everyone to see themselves as a reflection within the artwork.
Apart from this, I am interested in exploring different subjects and mediums. Previously, I have worked on diverse topics like Divine Proportion, Period Poverty, mental health. I am keen on learning new contemporary ideas and concepts. That led me to experiment with installations and sublimation prints as well.
Solo Exhibitions
(2023) Green one next to the yellow blob or?, The Swan, Kingston School of Art
(2022) Series of Seven, The Swan (MFA Studios), Kingston School of Art
Group Exhibitions
(2023) :in dialogue, Self-organized group exhibition, FuseBox, Kingston Upon Thames
(2023) Crow titties, Self-organized group exhibition, Kingston School of Art
(2022) Shop Flaw, Not My Beautiful House, Kingston Upon Thames
(2020) Made Public, Medicine Gallery, Birmingham
(2020) Major Project, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham
(2019) Art after Nature, Highbury Hall, Birmingham