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JENGIZ MAHIR

West 25th Street, New York, NY
530
MUSA

American-Azerbaijani painter Jengiz Mahir Musa offers haunting psychological portrayals of the fundamental human struggle. Musa moved to New York at age 13 from the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to live with relatives. After coming out of a vicious cycle of addiction, he left the City and moved to Alaska, where he worked in the commercial fishing industry. It was there that he took up painting, as a form of meditation to survive the unbearable darkness of winters. His painting process is both highly physical and spiritual. He paints with his fingers, working on four or five pieces at a time, scattered around his apartment. To the sound of Sufi music, he waltzes from one painting to another, adding and subtracting elements, as the energy guides him.

He defines his style Pareidolism, a term coined after pareidolia, a phenomenon whereby meaningful images are perceived in vague or ambiguous visual patterns. As such, faces and silhouettes appear from amalgams of color, nebulous obfuscations concealing worlds he only can reveal. Playing further with the hidden, Musa enjoys painting on wallpaper instead of the traditional canvas, which allows him to add another layer of complexity to his pieces, unveiling and obscuring the underlying motifs. Hypnotic and magnetic, Musa’s oeuvre channels a visceral, cathartic quality that potently unsettles, yet moves the viewer.

JENGIZ MAHIR MUSA ON
Descent, 2021 Oil on linen backed wallpaper 54” x 30” $1650 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Fishing For Soul, 2021 Oil on canvas 50” x 36” $1700 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Flash, Lights, 2021 Oil on linen backed wallpaper 52” x 36” $1750 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Glass Cage, 2020
Oil on linen backed wallpaper
BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
54” x 25” $1525
2021
linen
BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Green Fog,
Oil on
backed wallpaper 54” x 38” $1850
Indifference Of Goodmen, 2021 Oil on linen backed wallpaper 55” x 30” $1675 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Lust, 2021 Oil on canvas 40” x 30” $1300 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Mama, 2020 Oil on canvas 36” x 24” $1050 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Misunderstood, 2021 Oil on linen backed wallpaper 54” x 39” $1875 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Naked And Afraid, 2021 Oil on linen backed wallpaper 48” x 36” $1650 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Nocturnal, 2020 Oil on canvas 36” x 24” $1050 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Patience, 2022 Mixed media on linen backed wallpaper 44” x 28” $1350 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
And Angels, 2022
media on canvas
x 24”
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Saints
Mixed
36”
$1050
Scream, 2021 Oil on canvas 40” x 30” $1300 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
The Welcome, 2021 Oil on linen backed wallpaper 54” x 42” $1950 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM
Tree Of Life And Death, 2021 Oil on canvas 60” x 40” $1800 BUY ON ART-MINE.COM

I regard painting as a physical as much as a spiritual act. I usually work on four to five pieces at a time, disseminated throughout my living space, to the sound of Sufi music. Akin to a dervish dancer, I move from one painting to another, adding and subtracting details as the energy moves me. I work directly with my fingers to convey rawness and immediacy and prefer the coarse surface of wallpaper to traditional canvas, partly for its unconventionality, partly for the possibility of concealing and revealing the underlying motifs. I define my style as Pareidolism, since the figures and shapes I perceive in my paintings are the result of pareidolia–the tendency to identify meaningful images in vague or ambiguous visual patterns. Each artwork is a profound meditation, a mirror onto my personal journey of healing and rebirth.

ORIGINAL JENGIZ MAHIR MUSA ARTWORKS ON

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