Work samples

  • Current works in progress
    Current works in progress

    Expanding on the Signals and Frequencies series, my current pieces explore how energy moves and transforms from one moment or point to another

  • Signals and Frequencies
    Signals and Frequencies

    The completed series, Signals and Frequencies, along with the watercolor sketches that were used to inform the finished pieces and evolved into their own kind of meditation.

  • Process
    Process

    Movement defines energy, yet the ways in which signals come together or move apart remain uncertain. Each work remains open — an exploration completed through the viewer’s perception.

  • I am this
    I am this

    Based on the simple guiding meditation, "I am this", explores how ephemeral moments have substance and value based on our own fleeting perception.

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About Neela

Baltimore City  

A practice that has evolved through an ongoing exchange between art and architecture, Neela's work incorporates parallel modes of inquiry—space and form, particles and matter, her work focuses on energy, transitions, and how we perceive the way time is encountered—through a process grounded in observation and iteration, she's developed an evolving work that tests the boundaries between the ephemeral and the defined, the seen and the unseen.

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Signals

  • Signals I
    Signals I

    Small Song. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Signals II
    Signals II

    No Birth, No Death. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Signals III
    Signals III

    Love of heat.  Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Signals IV
    Signals IV

    Anywhere you go.  Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Gallery show
    Gallery show

    Love of Heat on view at MFA's new Avenue Gallery for their Midsummer Madness show.

  • Signals I
  • Signals II
  • Signals III
  • Signals IV
  • Gallery show

    • Frequencies

    After suffering profound loss, the desire to search for meaning through art became a form of meditation—an exploration of frequencies that are a distinct dynamic imprint in time, and of signals that remain with us.

    • Frequency I
      Frequency I

      For a moment, we had it all. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

    • Frequency II
      Frequency II

      Coming and going. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

    • Gallery show
      Gallery show

      Coming and Going displayed at the Maryland Federation of Art's Earl Galley for their juried show, Art in Abstraction — I was beyond thrilled to be selected as one of 34 artists from 367 entries by 118 artists, and to see my work exhibited in such great company of work.

  • Frequency I
  • Frequency II
  • Gallery show

    • Studies

    Using water color pencils to sketch studies for Signals and Frequencies was an important part of processing grief, while also working to give form to emotions. 

    • Signals Study
      Signals Study

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Signals Study
      Signals Study

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Signals Study
      Signals Study

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Signals Study
      Signals Study

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Signals Study
      Signals Study

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Frequency Study I
      Frequency Study I

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Frequency Study II
      Frequency Study II

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

    • Frequency Study III
      Frequency Study III

      watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Signals Study
  • Signals Study
  • Signals Study
  • Signals Study
  • Signals Study
  • Frequency Study I
  • Frequency Study II
  • Frequency Study III

    • Intersections

    A study of lines; the way they come together and what we see, versus what we want to see

    • Intersections I
      Intersections I

      Tea leaves tell you what you need to see (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

    • Intersections II
      Intersections II

      If connections were enough (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

    • Intersections III
      Intersections III

      Beneath the surface (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

    • Intersections IV
      Intersections IV

      Are we there yet? (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

    • Intersections V
      Intersections V

      Songs have a way of lingering (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

  • Intersections I
  • Intersections II
  • Intersections III
  • Intersections IV
  • Intersections V