Kayla Mohammadi’s paintings reflect her dual heritage – the bright, bold colors of Scandinavian design and the intricate, organic patterns of Islamic tiles and Persian rugs inspire her palette and approach to abstraction.
The focus of the paintings in the 2022 exhibition, “Overlap”, is on the flattening and creating space through overlapping images. The column paintings were inspired by Brancusi’s sculptures called Endless Columns. A second group of paintings are of simplified still life objects set on shelves on top of a grid. These images were from observation of an interior space that she saw in her time while in Melbourne, Australia at the Norma Redpath Studio in 2017. The imagery made it into her work two years after her residency.
Mohammadi received her BA from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and an MFA from Boston University , Boston, MA.
She is currently an Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Awards include:Childe Hassam Purchase Prize from the from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation,The Dedalus Foundation and the Blanche E. Coleman Foundation. She lives in Boston and Walpole, Maine.
Kayla Mohammadi E-Catalogue 2022
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