Quarter-Life Street Shop Blues, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches ( 91 x 122 cm) 2023
Envisaging Spring, Oil on canvas, 45 x 50in (114 x 127 cm), 2021
Sudden Scramble, Oil on canvas, 35 x 34in (89 x 86 cm), 2020
Untitled, Oil on canvas, 48 x 38in (122 x 97 cm), 2021
ABOUT
Torn between wanting to make work that addresses the ugly or celebrates the good, Krishna Schroth usually finds herself exploring the in-between—saturating the grey area with an acidic palette and comic-y imagery that nods to the boldness of pop art—looking towards all forms of satire for influence, from comics to comedy, even the erratic yet seemingly honest practice of Gonzo writing. To her, they’re coping mechanisms that grapple with the world around us while exercising the necessary art of criticism and protest. Krishna’s additional influences include punk subculture, elements of anti-authoritarianism and unapologetic individualism mixed with more lowbrow stylization drive this sense of “fuck the system” in her work.
Pressing more and more towards scribbled lines, psychedelic abstractions, and disjointed figures and spaces reflecting the precariousness of the world’s climate, her works reveal a psychological space that addresses these universal feelings of heaviness and tension. Fueled with uncertainty, unease, and anxiety, her paintings draw from a sense of desperation to find a sense of assurance and promise.
“The world is dreadfully arbitrary, polarizing, surreal, chewed up, regurgitated, fucked up, and sinfully beautiful.”
