Ricky Vasan (b. 2001, Dehradun, India) is a representational painter currently based in Boston Massachusetts. Vasan has been exhibiting in local galleries in the New England area and has received the George Nick award, The Rob Moore Grant in painting and recently his painting ʻTwo Aliens Share A Beerʼ was awarded best in show for the Cambridge Art Associationʼs annual National Prize Show.
Vasan draws from his inter-cultural experiences and aims to produce work that speaks to a diverse audience, he is interested in representing his personal truth on the canvas while taking into account formal and conceptual considerations derived from the complex history of painting.
Predominantly Vasan's work focuses on domesticity and the celebration of the mundane. The minutiae of life serves as the artistʼs prelude. Through an autobiographical lens, Vasan works to create smaller narratives, showcasing moments, spaces and people that are personally significant, while also expanding on memory and nostalgia. Itʼs interesting that for Vasan, who is also a musician, dissonance is at the core of his artistic practice. The haziness of memory, the distortion of events, the warping of recording time, are all explorations he undertakes. Under the umbrella of realism, Vasan delves into the multiplicity of time, turning the photographs that begin his process into a depiction that is far from linear.