Rand Maeeni

Rand Maeeni makes paintings, works on paper, and installations. Her work is largely abstract, though figures, faces, and gestures move through it.

Her method is built and then disturbed. Surfaces are layered, buried, scratched back, and partly recovered, so that what remains feels as if it has survived being covered over. On paper, the process is faster and often left unrevised. In installation, the mark leaves the surface and becomes object, structure, and repetition.

The work asks for slow attention. Images are not given all at once, but found gradually through looking. The longer the attention, the more the surface gives back.

She was born in Baghdad and grew up between Baghdad and Dubai, and later moved to the United States. She holds a bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah and practiced design and creative direction for over a decade in Dubai and Los Angeles before turning fully to the studio. She lives and works in San Francisco.