Samira Abbassy???s Paintings Shed Light on the Interior Self in ???Embodied Mythologies???

Samira Abbassy’s paintings and drawings contain the feel of an artist who has slowly cultivated her technique and iconography over time. Her practice contains strong personal and sociopolitical elements — revealing intense internal psychological dramas while simultaneously representing her Iranian heritage and its Persian and Arab ties. The dream-like renderings of the largely female figures present in her solo presentation Embodied Mythologies at ADVOCARTSY have a kind of Jungian undertone and display a carefully cultivated stylistic approach that manages to come across as idiosyncratic without having the feel of a brand.

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