Anna Sidana
Monsoon, 2022 - Oil on canvas
76 x 127 cm - £3,200.00
The Monsoon in India is not a season or a downpour. It is an emotion, an awakening of the senses from the slumber of summer, a communal exhalation, and a welcoming of life. It is a magical time for a child. The dry months of February and March in California and a deeply nostalgic longing for the rains led to a desire to paint rain.
76 x 127 cm - £3,200.00
The Monsoon in India is not a season or a downpour. It is an emotion, an awakening of the senses from the slumber of summer, a communal exhalation, and a welcoming of life. It is a magical time for a child. The dry months of February and March in California and a deeply nostalgic longing for the rains led to a desire to paint rain.
Anna is a visual artist and large-scale oil painter. Her art explores an emotional connection with complex family histories. Leveraging the staggering power of nature to heal, and through abstraction and symbolism, she transcends the canvas to convey myriad emotions. Childhood memories led Anna to her subject matter of pomegranates, the monsoons and cotton in her art. Taking a contemporary twist on landscape painting, she blurs the traditional horizon, preferring to keep the viewer in a fluid and lyrical psychological space that is not a specific location or place.
Anna has shown her work at the de Young Museum of San Francisco, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, The Diego Rivera Gallery, Times Square, New York, the London Art Biennale (2021), and the Louisiana Biennial (2022), and she is the recipient of two Sheridan Awards. Anna serves on the board of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and ZERO1, a global art nonprofit that leverages art for social change. Anna holds a bachelor's from the British Computer Society (BCS) and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).
Anna has shown her work at the de Young Museum of San Francisco, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, The Diego Rivera Gallery, Times Square, New York, the London Art Biennale (2021), and the Louisiana Biennial (2022), and she is the recipient of two Sheridan Awards. Anna serves on the board of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and ZERO1, a global art nonprofit that leverages art for social change. Anna holds a bachelor's from the British Computer Society (BCS) and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).