Tag: mixed media painting

Mar 31

This Artist Builds Abstract Faces From Layers of Pink, Purple, and Orange | Lisa Matway

Selected for our Faces exhibition, Lisa Matway creates bold abstract faces layered in vivid pinks, purples, and oranges that pulse with emotion. Her work is deeply rooted in her husband Jerry’s journey with Parkinson’s, exploring the gap between a face that appears still and the life that continues beneath it. Through exaggerated features, layered textures, and unapologetic color, she restores expression where the condition tries to take it away. Each piece begins with shared conversations, translating lived experience into visual form. What started as a personal outlet has grown into modart4pd,…

Feb 05

She Was Five Years Old When Museum Became The Only Place She Could Hide I Olga Hiiva

Olga Hiiva paints the faces that were never allowed to remain. Working on tablecloths, nightgowns, and worn domestic fabrics, she restores presence to lives erased by violence and silence. Her portraits are not memorials of suffering, they are acts of return, carrying grief, love, and survival across generations, and insisting that what was meant to vanish is still here.