2023-24 New Faculty

I am a painter living in Brooklyn, teaching courses in gouache during WS and oil painting during the spring semester. I am excited to be at Williams after teaching art and mathematics (separately) to students from 3rd-12th grade at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn since 2014. In 2021, I graduated from RISD with an MFA in Painting; my BA from Pomona College was in (pure) Mathematics. While I am primarily an oil painter, my art practice encompasses drawing, printmaking, and ceramics. Reading and writing are core to both my studio and teaching philosophies, as is community; I am a new member of Below Grand, a curatorial collective with a gallery in lower Manhattan. Recently, I've been making still-life paintings that deal in abstraction and pattern from observation of Indian family textiles and other objects. Last year, I had a solo show at Tappeto Volante Gallery in Brooklyn, as well as a two-person show at Peep Projects in Philadelphia in collaboration with another Williams art professor: Pallavi Sen. Otherwise, I've worked mostly with galleries in NY and LA. You can see more of my work, through its various iterations, at my website: aparnasarkar.us. It's a pleasure to be here, working with curious and driven Williams students in the studio art building.