Rand Maeeni

(b. Baghdad; based in San Francisco)

Artist Statement

My work responds to the collapse of interior life in contemporary culture. In a moment marked by cognitive load and emotional saturation, I use abstraction to examine how clarity begins to form inside pressure and how mental and emotional states start to reorganize.

The paintings move between density and openness. Gestural accumulations build tension, interruptions create breathing room, and shifts across the surface reveal the internal negotiations between overwhelm and coherence. Each piece holds a transitional condition rather than a resolved one. The work focuses on the movement toward clarity, not a final state.

I am interested in how interior experience stabilizes itself. The paintings study systems of compression, dispersal, flow, interruption, and recalibration. They function as spaces where perception steadies and where the interior world regains structure.

Bio

Rand Maeeni was born in Baghdad and raised in Dubai, and now lives and works in San Francisco. She holds a BFA in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah. After more than a decade leading creative direction, she maintains a full-time painting practice developing bodies of work for galleries, collectors, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.