Botanicals with Bite
Jennifer Vogel, American Craft Council
May 2024
One evening in January, toward the end of sculptor and installation artist Sagarika Sundaram’s Source exhibition at Palo Gallery in New York City, a patron snuggled up to one of her enormous, psychedelic fiber sculptures and declared, “It’s cozy. You can feel its love.” Sundaram, who happened to be standing in another part of the gallery, described her pieces in less comforting terms. “I think of them more as fierce and a little grotesque,” she said. “I like to think these pieces have a life force, that they are fully awake.” […]