Vick Naresh: Blooms of the Monsoon

Nov 3

Written By D Witte

November 7th - 29th, 2025
Reception: Friday November 7th, 7-9PM

Rules In All Directions (Sisters Of The Tide #2), Oil On Cotton, 74" X 76"

"When the East Gave birth to the Moon,
Love was the dancer at the feast;
The heavens smiled for joy;
And the Wind strewed the perfumed dust
Of lotus-pollen in the courtyard of the sky."

-Poems from the Sanskrit
(Translated by John Brough)
Anonymous

We are thrilled to present Blooms of the Monsoon, a solo exhibition by Vick Naresh.

In Blooms of the Monsoon, Vick Naresh uses painting as a site for transformation where memory and landscape merge in a sensuous dialogue between land and water. Here, Naresh's landscapes pulse with biomorphic energy that suggests a sort of blooming and renewal, transporting the viewer into an imaginative space full of storytelling and personal reflections but within a larger, global narrative. Metaphorical doorways lead into concepts of migration, growth, and resilience while simultaneously revealing tropes of the blooming unfamiliar, a hat tip to the subconscious.

Through the use of vibrant colour and fluid gestural marks, Naresh's compositions render memory as a tangible sensation shaped by displacement and return. The fusing of the legendary lotus and the humble pinecone appears as a recurring emblem throughout these works - two botanicals from incredibly divergent worlds intertwined to form a personal mythology of belonging. These hybrid blooms, suspended between the tropical and the continental, offer a meditation on adaptation, just the way identity, influenced by tidal currents, reshapes itself over time.

We invite you to join us for an opening reception with the artist present on Friday November 7th from 7-9PM. Please enjoy a preview of the exhibition below.

Exhibition Artworks