Natessa Amin, a 2006 graduate of Blair Academy, brings her art to the Romano Gallery from Tuesday, Oct. 19, to Saturday, Nov. 20.

The exhibit is title “Memory Palace” and reflects her experiences growing up with contrasting cultures. She was born in Pennsylvania to an Indian-American family and is biracial. She incorporates the cultures and religions of her heritage into paintings that evoke Indian, African and Pennsylvania Dutch textiles.

She employs a highly tactile painting practice including layering pigments, dyes, silver leaf, glass particles and textural gels. She often sprinkles pigments and dyes over the canvas, drags granulated glass particles across surfaces and uses lines made with embroidery thread to guide the curve of the forms that emerge. “I aim to create worlds of tactile immediacy that dismantle hierarchy for the viewer in the hope of forming new connections from one piece to the next,” Ms. Amin says. “Through this series of…interchanging visualizations, I search for moments of convergence as I negotiate and reconcile what it means to be hybrid.”

Currently an assistant professor of practice at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pa, Amin is also the co-founder and director of the artist-run FJORD Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited in many group and solo shows. Recent exhibitions include Natessa Amin: Hyphen at CUE Art Foundation in New York, New York; But we can’t say what we’ve seen at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Los Angeles, California; and Fields and Formations: A Survey of Mid Atlantic Abstraction at the Delaware Contemporary/American University Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. She holds a BFA from Boston University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania.

The artist’s talk will be Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in the gallery.