Passionately committed to exploring the inherent properties, color, and luminosity of form, United States based artist Maira Abbasi creates work that moves seamlessly between many approaches. Maira's striking paintings draw us into an enigmatic, transformative, exotic and sensual world of fantasy, seduction, and spirit. Color and form undulate in fluid compositions that form an interior dialogue on the intersections of space, place, time, memory, culture, and history. Her works emphasize the theme of a journey that is at once historically embedded and yet intensely personal. The Pakistani born artist is a painter whose style, techniques and subjectivity is both vast and diverse, yet always grounded in the internal, the psychology of places, history, and nature, and her physical responses to the materials in articulating the unsaid.

Her primary focus and area of work is a unique approach to painting, utilizing signature mixed media methods. Creating both intuitively and instinctively,she infuses her work with a spirit of harmony and balance, that is then juxtaposed with a hypnotic edge. In Maira’s Architecture Series her own personal history, relationships and experiences clearly influences her paintings as she documents the glory, strength and fragility of space and time. By recording those stories and experiences visually in her work, she gives them significance, acknowledging the beauty, melancholy, and history. She does so by layering colors that create a duality of razor - sharp and soft textures that coexist alongside the colorful blending of representation with gestural expressionism. This reveals her physical involvement in the work - paint has been applied with passion, leaving behind a veritable artistic signature as testimony for her viewer.