2020-2024 – Shyama Golden

In My Mind, Out My Mind at Harper’s Chelsea until June 29th, 2024

See In My Mind, Out My Mind at Harper's Chelsea 534 W 22nd St. May 16 – June 29, 2024
(Use arrow keys or swipe to navigate slides) installation images by Steven Probert, courtesy Harper's, New York

Daydream of a Nocturne

two figures sit on a padura, or straw mat in Hollywood forever cemetery eating fish and a corn-dog off a banana leaf. One is a woman and the other wears the mask of Maha-Sona the demon of the graveyard

Daydream of a Nocturne
Oil on linen
72"x60"
2023

Paradisification

Oil painting of a peacock standing on a grave in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles

Paradisification
Oil on linen
30"x36"
2024

Restricted Area

A woman walks through a field of gopher holes, traffic cones and tree spirits in a neglected Los Angeles park

Restricted Area
Oil on wood
48" Tondo
2024

Down the Gopher Hole

A woman falls into a gopher hole in Los Angeles

Down the Gopher Hole
Oil on canvas
48"x48"
2024

Self Portrait with Waving Grass, and Portals

Portrait of a woman in green tones surrounded by waving grass

Self Portrait with Waving Grass
Oil on gessoboard panel
6"x8"
2023

Still life of a traffic cone and gopher holes

Portals
Oil on gessoboard panel
6"x8"
2023

In My Mind, Out My Mind

A vertical diptych showing a figure falling through a gopher hole into another dimension

In My Mind, Out My Mind
Oil on linen
30"x72"
2024

The Double

A yakka in the headlights

The Double
30"x36"
Oil on linen
2024

Close to Home

A scene after a car accident with a doppleganger yakka

Close to Home
60"x72"
Oil on linen
2024

Treebirth

A red vertical painting

Treebirth
12"x48"
Oil on linen
2024

Blood Orange Moon

A woman is born out of a tree in the Los Angeles River, with a blood moon in the background

Blood Orange Moon
60"x72"
Oil on linen
2024

Afterbirth

A mask is emerging out of a hole in a tree

Afterbirth
30"x36"
Oil on linen
2024

Never the Same River Twice

a woman holds a mask while crossing the LA river on foot

Never the Same River Twice
Oil on linen
36"x72"
2024

Someplace Like Home

Someplace Like Home
72" x 60"
Oil on linen
2024

How Much Longer

POV a woman's left hand is visible in a California Redwood forest with a slight impression of a missing watch

How Much Longer
Oil on linen
16"x20"
2024

Watching You Watching Me

A woman's eye is visible through a Sri Lankan Yakka mask, the scene is set in Echo Park Los Angeles

Watching You Watching Me
Oil on wood
36" Tondo
2023

Anicca

A woman pushing a green trash bin full of bouganvilla on a Los Angeles street. In the background the soil on a small cliff edge is exposed and cacti are growing out of it. Trash is visible in the dirt as well.

Anicca
Oil on linen
30"x36"
2023

Deva Shuni

A woman wearing a dress of her own hair is a goddess of dogs in a desolated landscape among the ruins of Los Angeles

Deva Shuni
Oil on wood
48" Tondo
2022

Whistling Through the Graveyard

Maha Sona carries an offering basket through a Los Angeles Graveyard

Whistling Through the Graveyard
Oil on Canvas
60"x72"
2022

The Offering II

Oil painting on wood of an offering basket with a cow skull and oil lamp, with Lotus flowers on the right hand side and native California flowers on the left

The Offering
Oil on wood
36" Tondo
2022

Incarnation

Sri Lankan Yakkas stand on top of abandoned cars in the hillside Mount Washington Neighborhood of Los Angles

Incarnation
Oil on canvas
60"x72"
2022

The Summoning of Maha Sona

Maha Sona in the graveyard transports to the site of a ritual

The Summoning of Maha Sona
Oil on panel
Diptych on 18"x24" panels
2022

Dehi Kapima (lime cutting)

An imagined Sri Lankan lime squeezing purification ritual

Dehi Kapima (lime cutting)
11"x14"
Oil on panel, framed
2022

Carry On

A woman and her double wearing a Sri Lankan demon mask play chicken in the ocean waves

Carry On
Oil on canvas
48"x60"
2022

Projections

A woman and a dog walk through a forest full of apparitions

Projections
Oil on canvas
72"x60"
2022

The Passage

A woman and a Yakka look at an Oak tree with an egg hovering inside of it, in a Los Angeles landscape with trash and native plants

The Passage
Oil on canvas
60"x72"
2022

After the Rains

A woman faces a Sri Lankan Yakka in a Los Angeles Landscape littered with weeds and trash, bright red Nasturtium and some orange-yellow California poppies

After the Rains
Oil on canvas
60"x72"
2022

The Offering

vertical diptych of hands making an offering in a custom painted frame

The Offering
Oil on panel
Diptych on 11"x14" panels, with painted frames

Maha Sona and Pandam Paliya

Maha Sona
Acrylic on canvas
36"x48"
2022

Pandam Paliya
Acrylic on canvas
36"x48"
2022

Intertwined

two tree figures in a mangrove environment

Intertwined
Acrylic on canvas
48"x48"
2020

Familiar Phantom

Arboreal figures arranged as a family sitting in a forest

Familiar Phantom
Oil on canvas
60"x60"
2021

The Hero

The Hero
Oil on wood
48" tondo
2021

The Muse

A tree-like figure reclines in a mongrove set against a purple hazy sky

The Muse
Oil on canvas
60"x40"
2021

Blue

A vine-covered tree figure taken over by Morning Glories against a silver background

Blue
Acrylic on canvas
48"x48"
2021

Artifact from an Alternate Dimension

Artifact from an Alternate Dimension
Digital screen and frame
5.8" x 8.4" x 1"
2020

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In My Mind, Out My Mind at Harper’s Chelsea until June 29th, 2024

Paintings in progress at various rough stages in the artists studio in Los Angeles

Upcoming Solo opening May 16th at Harper’s Gallery 534 W 22nd St in Chelsea, NYC

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