About

Mara Safransky is a Portland, OR-based artist working in paint and pastel. Her practice explores the evocative qualities of color, shape, and texture.

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. Since that time, her work has been included in group exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles, acquired by private collectors, and sold by design-focused retailers.

Mara’s heavily layered oil paintings occupy the space between abstract expressionism and color-field painting. Each is an invitation into a freely associative experience, opening the door to interpretation and reflection in an ever-evolving conversation between artwork and viewer.