Malavika Reddy

Malavika Reddy, born in Hyderabad has completed her BFA in Fine Arts, specializing inpainting from Maharaja Sayyaji Rao University of Baroda, Gujarat. She has experimentedwith different mediums, one of it being ‘dry pastels’ with which she made a series of worksnamed “EyeSpeak” and had her first solo art exhibition at the age of sixteen with ShristhiArt Gallery.

From then to now she has matured into a very dynamic artist on the block, as these recentworks of hers, features a genre less approached with the “sane mind”.“Without Acid "as the exhibition is titled, truly inspires one to dwell deep down into onesown mind, to come to the “revealing or in connection to the mind manifestation”. Malavikahas made an attempt at creating psychedelic art which usually involves the influence ofrecreational drugs, or getting into an altered state of consciousness by attempting any ofthese massively potent drugs.

Her very message in this series of works is that, one doesn’t need to be high on suchrecreational drugs to push ones creativity, and enforce their energies pumped up bychemicals to create something immense; one can get high on themselves and their ownpotential, dwell deeper into the exploration with creativity to create wonders. For Malavika,her passion and intensity towards art drives her, to experiment.

Malavika was inspired by the psychedelic art form when she came across a couple of herfriends discussing LSD and one or two of whom, have also experimented with it. It wasthen that she researched and went ahead to create these set of works. To get apsychedelic experience one takes recreational drugs like LSD and psilocybin/magicmushrooms.

Psychedelic Art is known for its bright and highly contrasting colors with repetitive motifsand extreme depth of detail in the work. There is an inclusion of innovative typography andhand lettering as well.

Malavika has shown how all this can be achieved in her work only through her ownintensity and the will to create something that magnanimous.She being spiritually inclined, made it even more smooth for her to achieve this style of art,as she used Indian God forms to show the depth in her work.

Her message for the youth today is that, ‘creativity is a high in its own right, so knowyourself, explore yourself and feed on your own creativity’.

Title: Subhadra

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 16.5 x 14 inches

Title: Balram

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 20.5 x 14 inches

Title: Jagannath

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 20.5 x 14 inches

Title: Rudra

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches

Title: Ganesha 2

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 6 x 6 inches

Title: Ganesha 1

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 6 x 6 inches

Title: Durga ye

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 13.5 x 19.5 inches

Title: Panchmukh

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 11.5 x 15 inches

Title: Avighna

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 15 x 11.5 inches

Title: Vishnu

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 9.5 x 9.5 inches

Title: Untitled

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 9.5 x 9.5 inches

Title: Om Gan Ganapataye Namah

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 9.5 x 9.5 inches

Title: Om

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 9.5 x 9.5 inches

Title: Untitled

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 11 x 11 inches

Title: Untitled

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 11 x 11 inches

Title: The third eye

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 8 x 6 inches

Title: Kali

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 13.5 x 6 inches

Title: Untitled

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 9.5 x 7 inches

Title: Visargah

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches