Surface Design Journal, winter 2023.
In the Realm of Lost Senses: The Embroidered Tapestries of Jagdeep Raina.
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Jagdeep Raina, Earrings of Patience, 2022. Mixed media on paper, sewn with bordered fabric, batted, basted and binded into a quilt, 28.2 x 36.4 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole Gallery.
Jagdeep Raina, Paradise Lost, 2019. Embroidered tapestry with Punjabi phulkari border on muslin, 18 x 30 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole Gallery.
Jagdeep Raina, Nargis, 2022. Kashmiri embroidered sozni on naturally dyed muslin, 7 x 6 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole Gallery.
Surface Design Journal, Winter 2023 - Special Issue: Seeing / Being Seen: LGBTQIA+ Writers on LGBTQIA+ Fiber Artists (Guest Edited by Rebekah Frank)
“Jagdeep Raina’s densely embroidered tapestries are intricate material meditations on intimacy and the feelings of entanglement that … transform the unbearable weight of waiting for intensely craved forms of contact into something not only manageable, but capable of liberating us from the logics of dispossession that wear down our senses of hope and agency.”
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