About

Natasha Das’s work lies at an intersection of materials and methods, blurring the lines between approach and content.

Born in Assam, India and trained in Florence, Italy, Natasha is a cross-disciplinary artist working from her studios in Assam and New York City. She works primarily with oil paint and thread, layering the individuality of each material to build a surface upon which the two coexist inextricably.

Das began her career perfecting traditional portraiture, with a keen eye for color, figure, and composition. Increasingly frustrated with the constraints of her own expertise, Das began to unlearn what she was taught, shifting her concentration to the materials themselves.

Das introduced thread into her practice after training under an exclusively male artisanal weaving group in Assam. The thread and needle process mirrored her experiences with oil but gave her newfound inspiration through its inherent tactility. The relative permanence of the sewn threads on her canvases also complements her newfound agency as an artist. She chooses where to pierce the canvas, whether that be a dry spot or one rife with wet oil paint.

Composing these hybrid pictures pushes Das to understand color and material in more chaotic ways than she had ever before thought to, creating complex aesthetic dialogues to previously unexplored means. Natasha Das lives and works in New York City.