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Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - Cover Art for Ravens (2019)

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Shyama Golden Carry On, 2022 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches

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Shyama Golden

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Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - Elsz (2018)

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Shyama Golden’s Monstrous Alter-Ego Transfigures in a Surreal Mythological Narrative

JUNE 14, 2024

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“Daydream of a Nocturne” (2023), oil on linen, 72 x 60 inches. All images © Shyama Golden

In Sri Lankan folklore, yakkas are demonic tricksters, and in the paintings of Shyama Golden, they’re alter egos. The Los Angeles-based artist presents a new body of work this month at Harper’s Chelsea that uses these mythological creatures to shatter the false binary of good and evil.

Like earlier series, In My Mind, Out My Mind roots in narrative. “Daydream of a Nocturne” launches the uncanny storyline with a self-portrait of the artist seated in a cemetery next to a monstrous twin, rendered in unsettling washes of blues and greens. Subsequent works glimpse the artist traversing a meadow with one of her signature anthropomorphic trees on the horizon, before she appears peeking from the belly of a masked creature in “The Double.”

Golden’s journey is psychological as she attempts to greet and embrace her inner demons before emerging anew. Each portrait witnesses the next step in her metamorphosis before she slithers from a tree in her human likeness in the bizarrely beautiful “Blood Orange Moon.” Set in the concrete-walled Los Angeles River, the artist echoes the symbiotic and parallel transformations of psyche and environment.

In My Mind, Out My Mind is on view through June 22 in New York. If you’re in London, you can see one of Golden’s paintings at PM/AM through July 15.

“Paradisification” (2023), oil on linen, 30 x 36 inches

“Restricted Area” (2024), oil on wood, 48 inches tondo

“The Double” (2024), oil on linen, 30x 36 inches

“Close to Home” (2024), oil on linen, 60 x 72 inches

“Afterbirth” (2024), oil on linen, 30 x 36 inches

“Blood Orange Moon” (2024), oil on linen, 60 x 72 inches

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My Private Idaho, Shyama Golden (because)

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Shyama Golden - The Double, 2024 - Oil on linen

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Shyama Golden’s Monstrous Alter-Ego Transfigures in a Surreal Mythological Narrative

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Shyama Golden

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Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - Intertwined (2020)

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Shyama Golden Incarnation, 2022 Oil on canvas 60 x 72 inches

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Shyama Golden

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Shyama Golden's enormous oil painting "Home Sweet Brachiosaurus" 

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by Shyama Golden