Portland, OR
About Mara Safransky:
Mara Safransky is a Portland, Oregon–based painter whose work explores the expressive potential of color, texture, and gesture. Working in layered oil and pastel, she creates abstract compositions that balance structure and spontaneity. Her paintings are designed to bring atmosphere and visual depth to interiors, offering spaces moments of energy, calm, and reflection.
After growing up in the rural mountains of North Carolina and earning a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Mara moved to Los Angeles and began her professional art practice on a large easel in a small studio apartment. Since that time, her work has been shown in New York and Los Angeles, acquired by private collectors, and sold by interior design-focused retailers.
Mara describes her heavily-layered oil paintings as occupying the space between abstract expressionism and color-field painting. She sees each as an invitation into a freely-associative experience, one she intends open the door to interpretation and reflection, in an ever-evolving conversation between artwork and viewer.
More of Mara's work can be found on her main website, marasafransky.com.
Education
- Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A. - Providence, RI,1998