Current Exhibitions

Friday, June 26, 2026 – Sunday, November 8, 2026 Ali Banisadr (American, born Iran, born 1976). Weighing of the heart, 2023. Oil on linen. 48 x 60 inches (121.92 x 152.4 cm). © Ali Banisadr. Ali Banisadr merges the compositional elements of landscape painting with abstract mark-making to create an altogether new form of figuration. The resulting compositions are a carefully composed bedlam of forms that suggest but ultimately deny any specific narrative. Variously reminiscent of gardens of Eden, the seasonal genre pictures of Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Boschian depictions of Hell, Banisadr’s contemporary abstractions call upon the history of painting. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from Albert Pinkham Ryder’s enigmatic painting, The Temple of the Mind, serves as a conceptual framework for the project, suggesting a space where perception, memory, and imagination converge. While the Romantic painter was admired for his pioneering, semi-abstract style, for Banisadr, Ryder holds a space for contemplation amid rising uncertainties.

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