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Loss, resilience and art…and hopefully a glimpse into the profound and joyful spirit of a contemporary artist! Samira Abbassy is an Iranian born, contemporary British painter who has worked in New York since 1998. Thanks Samira for the inspiring conversation! ——— El dolor de la pérdida, la resiliencia y el arte… y, ojalá, una mirada al espíritu alegre de una artista. Samira Abbassy, pintora británica nacida en Irán, trabaja en Nueva York desde 1998. ¡Gracias, Samira, por esta conversación tan inspiradora! #ContemporaryArt #ArtistPortrait #ContemporaryArtists
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“Abbassy’s paintings are poised with stillness. Like the silent cinema of sleep when, safe in our beds, our unconscious taps at portals usually kept closed as if to say: look, this part of me remains left to be heard. The effect is like a medieval icon shimmering with the patina of past lives.” - Dr Sona Datta Working across painting and sculpture, Abbassy draws on her Persian heritage, mythology and personal memory to create works that exist between dream and reality. Her figures are at once familiar and elusive, unfolding as psychological landscapes where identity is fluid and the subconscious comes to the surface. Tomorrow is the final day to view Of Loss and Redemption. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~ #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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“Loss, here, is not only destructive, but also constitutive. Loss can make space for renewal and reconfiguration.” In Threading her Yellow (2025), Samira Abbassy distills her symbolic language into a striking, pared-back composition. A solitary figure is accompanied by recurring faces and multiplied hands, suggesting that identity is never fixed but continually shaped through memory, transformation, and lived experience. Through collage and oil, Abbassy creates an image that speaks less to certainty than to the quiet process of becoming. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~~~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~~~ Samira Abbassy Threading her Yellow, 2025 Collage and oil on canvas panel, unframed 40.5 × 51 cm. / 16 × 20 in. #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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“This work is part of my Exoskeleton series, a body of wall-mounted paint forms that exists between painting and sculpture. Through layered materials and accumulated surfaces, they explore protection as both a physical and psychological condition. Rather than functioning as armor, the works imagine protection as something porous, adaptive, and continually evolving.” -Anahita Vossoughi . . . Anahita Vossoughi (b. 1975) Exoskeleton 4 Protection: Ocean, 2021 Acrylic, latex and oil paint, ink, clay, plaster, glue, sand, grout, polystyrene beads, decorative gravel, sequin, faux metal leaf, and bejeweled fishnet stockings on laser cut wood 55.9 x 25.5 x 14 cm | 22 x 10 x 5 1/2 in . . . Currently installed in “Practices of Uncertainty”— curated by Samira Abbassy and on view at Richard Saltoun Gallery through August 21st. .. Summer hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11AM to 6PM and by appointment, 19 East 66th Street, Third floor, New York City. . . . Image courtesy of Brief Histories. Photo by Isak Berbić.
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“Like poetry, these works operate through resonance rather than resolution. They ask viewers not to decode, but to dwell.” In the Chemical Hysterical Series, Samira Abbassy uses charcoal to explore the fluid nature of thought, memory, and transformation. In Wave and Swarm (both 2025), swirling lines, layered forms, and recurring faces emerge and dissolve across the page, capturing what the artist describes as an interior landscape in motion. As the exhibition essay notes, these works “allow erasures, revisions, and traces of decision-making to remain visible, treating them not as mistakes but as evidence of thought in motion.” Rather than presenting fixed narratives, the drawings invite sustained reflection, where meaning unfolds gradually through gesture, rhythm, and repetition. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~~~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~~~ Samira Abbassy Wave (Chemical Hysterical Series), 2025 Charcoal on paper, unframed 101.5 × 84 cm. / 40 × 33 in. Samira Abbassy Swarm (Chemical Hysterical Series), 2025 Charcoal on paper, unframed 101.5 × 84 cm. / 40 × 33 in. #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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“Women dominate throughout. They appear repeatedly, whether as carriers of water, of grief, of knowledge, or of continuity.” In Mother in a Mirror (2025), Samira Abbassy reflects on motherhood as an experience shaped by memory, inheritance, and transformation. The mirrored face and recurring figures suggest that identity is never fixed, but continuously carried across generations. Rather than presenting motherhood as sentimental or idealized, Abbassy evokes the quiet resilience that runs throughout Of Loss and Redemption. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~~~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~~~ Samira Abbassy Mother in a Mirror, 2025 Oil on canvas 71 × 56 cm. / 28 × 22 in. #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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@samiraabbassy, "The Hand That Writes My Fate," 2025, oil on panel. Via @taymourgrahneprojects. Part of an online exhibition, "Samira Abbassy: Of Loss and Redemption," up thru August 4, 2026, here: https://tinyurl.com/47fpfh6k From @taymourgrahneprojects: "In 'The Hand that Writes my Fate' (2025), Samira Abbassy presents identity as something continuously shaped and reshaped. Multiple heads emerge across the composition, while the central figure appears suspended between stillness and transformation, suggesting that the self is not singular, but formed through memory, experience, and continual becoming." #samiraabbassy #womenartists #arabartists #iranianartists #britishartists #mysticalpainting #memorypainting #ancestorpainting #spiritualpainting #taymourgrahneprojects
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In The Hand that Writes my Fate (2025), Samira Abbassy presents identity as something continuously shaped and reshaped. Multiple heads emerge across the composition, while the central figure appears suspended between stillness and transformation, suggesting that the self is not singular, but formed through memory, experience, and continual becoming. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~~~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~~~ Samira Abbassy The Hand that Writes my Fate, 2025 Oil on panel 61 x 46 cm. / 24 x 18 in. #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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Discovering new artists is one of my favorite ways to stay inspired. ✨ as always here a my top artists and exhibitions of this month! This month, these four artists completely captured my attention… each with a distinct visual language and a unique perspective on identity, emotion, culture, and our relationship with the world. Dana Schutz @danaschutzart @pinakothekdermoderne Samira Abbassy @samiraabbassy @taymourgrahneprojects Suleman Aqueel @suleman_khilji @whitecube 🎨 Tomás Saraceno @tomassaraceno @haus_der_kunst Which artist’s work speaks to you the most? Or who would you add to this list? Let me know in the comments—I’m always looking for new artists to discover. 👇 #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist #ArtInspiration #ArtCollectors #cuperiorcollection
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“Separation” and “If I Ran Away” are part of the Confessions series, which explores the body as a fragmented archive of memory, trauma, and survival. Cast from the body in white bronze and assembled with found industrial objects, these sculptures examine systems of control, confinement, and the psychological weight the body continues to carry despite fragmentation. These sculptures exist in a space of tension, where beauty collides with brutality and tenderness emerges through friction. In a world where violence is systemic, softness becomes an act of defiance—a way of witnessing, remembering, and reclaiming. These assemblages offer no easy answers. They stand as monuments to what we carry and cannot fully release, existing between rupture and repair. They ask how we might hold our histories without allowing them to consume us. —Sara Rahbar . . . Currently installed in “Practices of Uncertainty”— curated by Samira Abbassy and on view at Richard Saltoun Gallery through August 21st. .. Summer hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11AM to 6PM and by appointment, 19 East 66th Street, Third floor, New York City. . . . Sara RAHBAR Separation / Confessions series, 2015 White bronze and collected object 106.5 x 28 x 10 cm 42 x 11 x 4 in . . . Sara RAHBAR If I Ran Away / Confessions series, 2020 White bronze 45.5 x 25.5 x 63.5 cm 18 x 10 x 25 in
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“Fire functions as a physical, psychological, and even geopolitical force.” In Dispelling Former Selves (2025), Samira Abbassy places a solitary figure amidst flames, surrounded by recurring faces that echo different states of being. Here, fire becomes more than an element of destruction. It represents transformation, illuminating the process of shedding former identities to make space for renewal. As the exhibition reminds us, “Loss, here, is not only destructive, but also constitutive.” Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~~~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~~~ Samira Abbassy Dispelling Former Selves, 2025 Oil on panel 122 × 91.5 cm. / 48 × 36 in. #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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The peacock appears as a recurring motif in Samira Abbassy’s works, such as In the Land of Peacocks, where it carries alchemical associations of endurance and transformation. The peacock, Abbassy says, is said to metabolize poison into iridescence, turning suffering into radiance. Abbassy has noted that this symbolism speaks to the possibility of transmutation rather than transcendence – a process of becoming through endurance, rather than escaping from pain. Discover the full exhibition via the link in our bio. ~~~ Samira Abbassy Of Loss and Redemption Online Solo Exhibition 7 July – 4 August 2026 ~~~ Samira Abbassy In the Land of Peacocks, 2025 Oil on canvas 101.6 x 101.6 cm. / 40 x 40 in. #SamiraAbbassy #TaymourGrahneProjects #ContemporaryArt #OnlineExhibition
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