On the painting.

My practice sits at the intersection of two disciplines that have shaped my life: neuroscience and painting. I am a PhD-trained neuroscientist and physical therapist who has spent more than a decade teaching the brain to doctoral students. I am also an Iranian-American, self-taught artist whose work — figurative, painterly, and emotionally layered — explores the body as a site of memory, resilience, and transformation.

The figures in my work are usually women. Sometimes mythic — angels, hybrids, dancers in motion. Sometimes political, emerging from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of my home country. Sometimes anatomical, drawn from a clinical decade spent inside the science of the nervous system. What unites them is a single inquiry: how does the body carry its history, and how does it find its way through?

I paint to translate what cannot be measured: the felt sense of being a body, in a moment, in a history.