Mara Safransky

While structurally abstract, I see my work in landscape terms. Without directly referencing the natural world, I strive within each piece to convey a sense of place and underlying atmospheric presence. I want the viewer to inhabit this space and use it to move beyond the constraints of the rigid, thinking mind and into a visceral experience of color, shape, and movement. Within this realm the concrete and physical fade, leaving only the plane of an inner landscape. This dimension liberates the viewer from the limitations of their critical, overly-analytic sensibilities and instead engages them in a subjective, freely-associative experience.

Mara Safransky spent her formative years in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She followed her passion for drawing and painting to Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned her BFA.

Today, Safransky works from her Los Angeles-based studio. She is sought after for commissions and her work is held in private collections. Through abstract imagery, her work examines issues of perception and experience, offering a meditative respite from our habitual way of interfacing with the world.