Join us for an opening reception in honor of “Underwater 22 Minutes,” a suite of new oil paintings by San Francisco-based Maysha Mohamedi, in her first solo show at the gallery.
Mohamedi creates abstract paintings that harken to the origins of language and the expressive process, bringing to mind the paradoxically distorting and generative processes of the human brain. She literally drags paint across her surfaces using hands, wrists, and found objects, producing lines, shapes, and images that playfully tweak formal notions of mathematical symmetry, graphology, and ritualized ornamentation. Informed by Mohamedi’s academic background in molecular neuroscience, the new works trigger a shift in the viewer’s perception, similar to what might occur with breath held deep underwater.
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Mohamedi creates abstract paintings that harken to the origins of language and the expressive process, bringing to mind the paradoxically distorting and generative processes of the human brain. She literally drags paint across her surfaces using hands, wrists, and found objects, producing lines, shapes, and images that playfully tweak formal notions of mathematical symmetry, graphology, and ritualized ornamentation. Informed by Mohamedi’s academic background in molecular neuroscience, the new works trigger a shift in the viewer’s perception, similar to what might occur with breath held deep underwater.
Join us for an opening reception in honor of “Underwater 22 Minutes,” a suite of new oil paintings by San Francisco-based Maysha Mohamedi, in her first solo show at the gallery.
Mohamedi creates abstract paintings that harken to the origins of language and the expressive process, bringing to mind the paradoxically distorting and generative processes of the human brain. She literally drags paint across her surfaces using hands, wrists, and found objects, producing lines, shapes, and images that playfully tweak formal notions of mathematical symmetry, graphology, and ritualized ornamentation. Informed by Mohamedi’s academic background in molecular neuroscience, the new works trigger a shift in the viewer’s perception, similar to what might occur with breath held deep underwater.
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Mohamedi creates abstract paintings that harken to the origins of language and the expressive process, bringing to mind the paradoxically distorting and generative processes of the human brain. She literally drags paint across her surfaces using hands, wrists, and found objects, producing lines, shapes, and images that playfully tweak formal notions of mathematical symmetry, graphology, and ritualized ornamentation. Informed by Mohamedi’s academic background in molecular neuroscience, the new works trigger a shift in the viewer’s perception, similar to what might occur with breath held deep underwater.
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1 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
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