Saranya Chandrasekaran

Artist Statement

Saranya Chandrasekaran is an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artistic practice is motivated by the interplay of nature, science, memories, and identity. With a background in engineering, she is drawn to combining traditional and experimental techniques—often working through layering, transfer, and mark-making to build surfaces that feel both intuitive and investigated.

Across painting, collage, and mixed media, Saranya uses materials and process to echo how meaning accumulates over time: patterns repeat, fragments shift, and traces remain. Her work moves between abstraction and suggestion, inviting viewers to sense connections between the personal and the ecological—between lived experience and the larger systems that shape it.

Saranya hopes her works kindle a spark of curiosity, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on the beauty, subtleties, and complexity of the world around us.