Roshini Agarwal (b. Pune, India; l. Los Angeles, CA) is a painter and MFA candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Agarwal employs trompe-l’oeil, pastiglia, patterns, and grids to depict instruments used to measure space and time. By approximating the measurements and forms of these tools, she closes the distance between embodied, intuitive ways of measuring the world and the external standards of truth these instruments attempt, but inevitably fail, to validate.
Her work measures error as both a material and conceptual condition, treating its measurement as a record of tolerance: ultimately finding truth in fallibility rather than precision.
Agarwal has exhibited at Siblings Collective and Ruschwoman in Chicago, IL, and Kita Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022.
