Press Release
O Gallery presents “Immersions”, a collection of works on paper by Leila Mirzakhani (b. 1978 Tehran).
Using a meditative and poetic approach, Leila Mirzakhani aims to recreate instinctual and natural human experiences in her practice through rediscovering a spiritual dimension in the ordinary events of everyday life. Mirzakhani’s drawings of atmospheric color fields examine qualities of ephemeral light as well as solid radiance. Offering examples of the medium’s possibilities, the artist minimalizes painting to the essentials with a sensory and allusive richness embedded in their asperity. The structural expressions and limited palette emphasize the beauty inherent in nature with a reference to seasons. This subtle beauty is apparent in the delicate visual incidents in the executions of lines, marks, hues and margins while demonstrating a deliberate emphasis on the wholeness of the surface.
Selected Works
