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Shyama Golden (b. 1983, Texas) is a Sri Lankan American artist, who lives and works inLos Angeles, USA. With a background in painting and graphic design, her oil and acrylic paintings use figuration to explore the complex and layered ways identity is experienced, performed, and reinforced. Her work has been featured on covers for The New York Times, LA Times, and Netflix Queue, a...
PM/AM Gallery is pleased to present 'Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth', Shyama Golden’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Shyama Golden is an artist with an acute understanding of the multitudes we each contain and carry within. Through her paintings, she opens portals into narrative dimensions with evocative, incantational power. Her autobiographical visions touch on the metaphysical, expanding beyond the mundane and anecdotal to seek a boundless universal truth. Life is never the linear journey we make it to be. It takes sinuous turns; it halts, rushes, and builds from deliberate decisions we make for ourselves, but may...