Studio Visit with Maysha Mohamedi

Join ArtTable in Downtown Los Angeles during the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo for a studio visit with artist Maysha Mohamedi!

Vibrant and playful, Maysha Mohamedi’s (b. 1980, Los Angeles) innovative practice points toward a new mode of atmospheric abstraction that registers certain conditions specific to Los Angeles—and American life as a whole—in the early 21st century. Reflecting her personal history, everyday experiences, and key constellations in her own cultural matrix, her palette is both purely abstract and directly connected to the patchwork of landscapes, objects, and environments that comprise her life. These range from an Ojai, California playground the artist visited with her children, clippings from cookbooks and magazines, to sea glass found on the shore. Mohamedi’s works are reflections of her own thinking, crystallized as moments of haptic communion. The artist’s academic background in neuroscience is found in the liveliness and expansiveness of her paintings. Liberated from the constraints and dictates of the three-dimensional world, her immersive works exude a sense of freedom and illimitability. For Mohamedi, the viewer is an equal creator in this shared universe of boundless possibilities.

Maysha Mohamedi received a Bachelor of Science in 2002 from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied cognitive science, specializing in neuroscience, and she earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, in 2011. Mohamedi’s work has been the subject of one-artist exhibitions at The Lodge, Los Angeles (2018); Gallery 16, San Francisco (2019); Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Massimo De Carlo, Paris (2022); Pace Gallery, New York (2023). In 2024, she presented a one-artist exhibition at Pace Gallery’s pop-up space in Berlin titled Mute Counsel. Most recently, she presented Maysha Mohamedi: yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste, at Pace Gallery, Tokyo (2024), which was accompanied by a catalogue published by Pace Publishing. Her work is held in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mohamedi lives and works in Los Angeles.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
ArtTable Member Guest – $20
General Admission – $25