MOHAMMAD MAHDI

Mohammad Mahdi – 1976 born and lives in Bahrain, artist, and designer whose acrylic paintings are characterized by his subtle interpretations of dreams and visions, likened to those of children. The soft pastel colors inscribed on the canvas with meticulous precision would be mistaken from a distance for color pencils and chalk drawings made by children, but on close inspection reveal bright surfaces of color in which sensations of apparent depth and light are created through color alone. Though imploding with vibrant colors, Mohammed’s paintings often seem altogether blurred and coated in thick fog, creating a singular distance between the viewer and the subject matter. It is as if the content of the painting needs to be dissolved before it is adequately grasped.