Lost in painting
Meher Aks creates from the friction between the known and the void.
Her education in vibrant NYC, at Barnard College of Columbia University, deepened her love for language and story. Yet her art also grapples with the unspoken spaces between words and worlds, propelling her to meet each canvas with both curiosity and the adventurous force of her primal soul.
Her lineage is one of mystical surrealism and Baroque drama, drawing a line from the anonymous craftspeople of antiquity, to the disruptive energy of Firelei Báez and Ana Mendieta. She’s also mentored by the emotionally fluid portraits of Amrita Sher-Gill and the intuitive animal paintings of Franz Marc, film noir, comic books and animated films.
To enter her workshop-sanctuary is to witness the creation of modern talismans—textured, mixed-media artifacts designed for those who find truth in the untranslatable
