Born in 1955, Hyderabad, India, painter and writer Sangeeta Reddy migrated to the United States in 1978 and currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Reddy studied English literature and philosophy at the University of Mumbai, India. Reddy’s abstraction of mixed media collages on paper and canvas began with the ideas of 5th C philosopher Sankara’s idea of Brahman, evolving into among other features, a formal language of deconstructed Devanagari calligraphy. Her artistic influences range widely from Indian weaving and hand loomed textiles to an early interest in Van Gogh, Cezanne, Picasso, and Western, Canadian landscape painters, Abstract expressionists.