As opposed to Khalid's, Reddy's women are recognizable, open and accessible. They are mothers, wives, daughters and sisters. As icons of womanhood, the monumentality of their scale and presence elevates the everyday woman to the stature of goddess. Reverence for nature is often represented by painting wildlife and lush vegetation. Glenn Goldberg's spacious canvases capture the atmosphere of a monsoon sky, a popular image in Indian miniature painting.
Horizons are high, leaving room for a band of dark sky and ragged clouds.
Goldberg's paintings revere nature in much the same way Mughal paintings depict gardens as symbols of paradise on earth. Animals are placed in the paintings as reminders, connecting humans to their environment. The paintings of Chris Martin show the influence of geometric diagrams typical of the Jain manuscripts. In his cosmological pictograms, Martin blends landscape and structure, referencing aspects of our spiritual nature, like backgrounds for the human and divine. His paintings depict iconographic worlds that embody an intimacy familiar in Rajasthani paintings, while his drawings capture the mystery trapped in the history of paper.