Aparna Malladi was born in Madras, India.  After graduating from college, she moved to the United States where she has been living for the past 19 years.  She currently resides in Los Angeles where she is pursuing a career in film making.

Since the gestation period for a film is long, Aparna started painting in November 2008 to have artistic expression in between her film moments and projects.  Painting helps give her instant gratification and also gives her ideas for her film scripts and visuals.  Her process involes drawing freehand on paper followed by painting with mostly metallic watercolors.  Aparna is very prolific and makes about 15-20 paintings a month.  As Picasso said ‘Painting is like keeping diary’.

She has shown and sold her work at Lost Souls Cafe in downtown Los Angeles and at The Loft in Highland Park.  Most recently she attended her first art residency at CanSerrat near Barcelona, Spain.  Her next port of call is Hyderabad, India where she plans to stay for 5 months and make a feature film and lots of paintings.

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