FARA THOMAS

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Fara Thomas is an Iranian American artist whose exploration of color, texture, and reflection invites viewers to explore beauty and challenge boundaries. Thomas's paintings consist of layers of handmade pigments created from semi-precious stones and organic dyes suspended in epoxy resin on wood panels.

As a form of energy, color stimulates our perceptual processes, acting as a vital first point of impact. Upon further observation, come the subtle depths and textures allowing for more nuanced expression. Thomas is interested in creating complex compositions with overlapping elements and intersecting layers of space. The work explores the intrinsic relationship between color and light; it challenges audiences to reconsider their own perceptions and slow down their interpretations. Depth pulls the viewer in, while reflections push the viewer to go deeper, inspiring audiences to ponder, imagine and feel.

How do we perceive our environment? What is reality? Can we trust our understanding? Thomas asks all these questions with her work. Her work provides viewers with a transparent look into the image's real spatial depth, thus linking pictorial reality with perceived reality. Interested in more simple forms and color transparency, Thomas' work plays with the impressions of depth through complex planes and compositions.

Her highly reflective surfaces serve as abstract mirrors to the viewer, reflecting our position inside the space and the possibilities of our relation to it.