Lakshmi Angie Keswani (BA, MSc) is a fine artist and JD candidate at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. Angie has lived and worked in Scotland, London, Switzerland, as well as New York, Boston and the Bay Area. Before her law studies, she freelanced in graphic design, branding expertise, illustration, and fine art in the Los Angeles area. She has also worked as the creative director for an arts magazine and the photographer for a fashion magazine. Angie is largely self-taught from years of various creative jobs starting at 15, which provides stream-of-consciousness fluidity and ease in her work. However, she is a product of liberal arts academia, lending her excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Angie is the queer, disabled, American-born daughter of British-Indians in a post-9/11 world, and the granddaughter of Sindhi and Punjabi refugees. One of her great struggles is uncovering the multitudinous ways being disabled, queer, and brown affects one’s ability to survive in a world built for able-bodied, straight white men. Her abstract expressionist fine art subconsciously explores this theme while exploring more salient topics such as perceived identity, loneliness, regret, beauty, and awareness of one’s self. Her illustration and digital design is thematically ‘lighter’ and commercially available, with inspiration in vintage home decor and cookbook illustration.