ARTWORK

Paintings, sculptural objects, and suspended works exploring structure, light, and material…

Maha Bazzari is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, and sculpture. Rooted in a background in architectural design, her practice moves between structure and intuition, using line, surface, and material to explore how form is built, disrupted, and reimagined.

Her work often begins with systems of order such as drafting logic, geometry, and spatial reference, then shifts through layering, texture, and process. Across painting, mixed media, and sculptural objects, she works with materials including acrylic, graphite, oil, iron shavings, fabric, ceramics, and wood, allowing each piece to develop through accumulation, erosion, and change.

Un/Grounded

Selected works

Painting and mixed media works exploring texture, tension, and the shifting space between stability and release.

Un/Grounded moves through the threshold between what anchors us and what loosens. These works are built through layering, abrasion, and material transformation, where surfaces feel at once held together and on the verge of release. Structure is present, but never fixed.

Beginning with guide lines, measured divisions, and underlying frameworks, the works are gradually interrupted through gesture, weathering, oxidation, and sediment-like buildup. Materials such as acrylic, graphite, gold leaf, and iron shavings introduce instability and change, allowing each surface to carry both intention and unpredictability.

This body of work is less about depicting space than about registering pressure, memory, and emotional weight through material. Texture becomes the point of contact between control and surrender, between what is grounded and what remains in motion.

: Magnetic Field I

: Magnetic Field II

: Suspended GeometriesPrint on fabric, suspended installation

: Contained Light I

: Constraint and Release

: Aligned

: Anchored

: Contained Light II

Light Made Visible

Selected works

Paintings and mixed media works exploring how light reveals, shapes, and alters form.

Light Made Visible centers on illumination as both subject and structure. These works consider how light defines edges, activates color, creates rhythm, and shifts our sense of space. Rather than focusing on texture or material tension, the series is concerned with atmosphere, contrast, and the changing legibility of form.

Drawing from architecture, shadow lines, and the movement of daylight across surfaces, the works trace moments of emergence, clarity, fading, and return. Geometric forms appear and soften, planes recede, and transitions between brightness and obscurity become central to the image.

This series reflects an interest in perception through light: how what we see is shaped by what is revealed, what is withheld, and what lingers in between. Light becomes more than a condition. It becomes an active force that transforms mood, memory, and spatial experience.

: Sunken Geometry

: Threshold

: Urban Reverberations

: Nocturne

: Liminal Light

: Framework

: Magnetic Veil

: Intersect

: Light Imprint

11 DIMENSIONS

Selected works

Paintings and mixed media works translating dimensional theory into layered visual structures through abstraction and material experimentation.

11 Dimensions began as an inquiry into dimensional space, moving from theory into visual form. Each work responds to the idea that space can be layered, folded, interrupted, or experienced beyond a single fixed viewpoint.

Through acrylic, glaze, spray paint, iron shavings, wire, and manipulated surfaces, the series builds spatial relationships that suggest simultaneity, expansion, and collapse. Instead of illustrating theory literally, these works use abstraction to propose dimension as something felt through depth, fragmentation, and shifting visual logic.

The result is a body of work that moves between drawing and painting, concept and sensation, asking how speculative space might be translated into material form.

: 11 Dimensions - Gravitational attraction

: Field Boundary Mixed media

: 11 Dimensions - Gravitational attraction

: Field Array Mixed media

: Field Study I Acrylic, iron shavings, and resin

: Field Concentration Mixed media, 2018

Visual-a-priori

Selected works

Paintings and mixed media works exploring intuition, atmosphere, and the emergence of form before definition.

Visual-a-priori is rooted in the idea that recognition does not always begin with clarity. These works move through softness, suspension, and subtle shifts in tone, where forms are sensed before they are fully named.

Built through translucent layers, blurred transitions, and restrained contrasts, the series invites perception to unfold intuitively rather than settle into a single interpretation. Color, atmosphere, and edge become the primary carriers of meaning.

This body of work invites a slower mode of looking, where image and feeling arrive together, and where what remains unresolved is essential to the experience of the piece.

: Veiled Figure

: Framed Luminance

: Veil FieldMixed

: Resonance

: Passage

: Veil Field

: Atmosphere Field I

: Distant Glow

: Chromatic Field

Sculpture

Selected works

Wood, ceramic, and mixed media sculptural works exploring form, balance, and material presence in space.

Alongside her two-dimensional practice, Maha creates sculptural works in wood, ceramic, and mixed media that extend her interest in structure, tension, and transformation into physical form. These objects are often shaped through repetition, carving, stacking, imprint, or assemblage, with close attention to weight, balance, edge, and surface.

Some works echo architectural frameworks, while others are more intuitive and tactile, emerging directly through the behavior of the material. Across both approaches, the sculptures consider how a form occupies space, holds pressure, and creates presence through volume, shadow, and touch.

Rather than functioning as supporting studies, these works are an integral part of the practice, allowing ideas of structure, fragmentation, and resonance to move off the wall and into the room.

: Folded Passage, carved wood sculpture

: Articulated Form

: Earthen Fold

: Articulated Form

: Articulated Form

: Topographic Relief

: Topographic Relief

: Topographic Relief

: Layered Vessel

: Layered Vessel

: Layered Vessel, detail

: Earthen Fold

Maha Bazzari’s artwork explores the relationship between light, structure, and material presence. Working across painting, photography, and mixed media processes, her practice investigates how surfaces, reflections, and spatial thresholds shape the perception of space. Many of these works emerge from close observation of architectural fragments, landscapes, and shifting light conditions, transforming familiar forms into quiet abstractions.

Bodies of Work

Light Made Visible

Selected works
Paintings and mixed media works exploring how light functions as structure, atmosphere, and material presence.

Light Made Visible brings together works that translate light into layered surfaces, line, reflection, and form. These pieces investigate how illumination can dissolve boundaries between architecture, memory, and abstraction, creating compositions that feel both spatial and intimate.

Works in this series move between clarity and ambiguity, using material variation and subtle geometry to suggest thresholds, fragments, and perceptual shifts.

Un/Grounded

Selected works
Painting and mixed media works examining fracture, flow, tension, and material transformation.

Un/Grounded explores the tension between stability and uncertainty through layered pigments, iron shavings, gesture, and structural interruption. The works reflect on grounding and movement as both physical and emotional conditions.

Architectural frameworks are disrupted through texture, magnetic force, surface tension, and shifting density, creating compositions that feel suspended between order and release.

Sacred Architecture

Selected works
Photographic and mixed media works attentive to stillness, rhythm, and the emotional resonance of built space.

Sacred Architecture considers how architecture can hold memory, contemplation, and presence beyond function. Through careful framing and sensitivity to light, the works examine the spiritual and emotional qualities of interior and communal space.

This body of work reflects an ongoing interest in how form, repetition, and atmosphere can transform architecture into an experience of quiet attention.

Space Maker

Selected works
Works engaging the shared language of art, design, and architecture through geometry, atmosphere, and spatial perception.

Space Maker brings together works that reflect on how artists and designers shape the experience of space through material, proportion, surface, and light. These pieces extend architectural thinking into visual form, translating spatial awareness into layered compositions.

The series explores how built form can be reimagined through abstraction, where openings, edges, and structural fragments become sites of perception and emotional resonance.

Selected Exhibitions

Space Maker — La Jolla Historical Society
Sacred Architecture — La Jolla Historical Society
Light Made Visible — The 3rd Space
Un/Grounded — Bivouac Ciderworks Adventure Lodge
Glashaus
Brokers Building
Hello Neighbor — Tecture
Open House — Tecture
Thumbprint Gallery
Blue Motif — Architectural Office Exhibition, Little Italy, San Diego

For full exhibition details, please visit the Exhibitions page.

Commissions and Placements

Sharp HealthCare

Permanent art placement commission consisting of 264 photographic works created for the new Sharp Rees-Stealy medical campus in Kearny Mesa.

The project integrates regional landscape photography into patient rooms, corridors, and public spaces throughout the healthcare facility, drawing from San Diego’s diverse environments and atmospheric studies of light and terrain.

For artwork inquiries, commissions, or available works, please visit the Contact page.

Maha Bazzari is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, and sculptural installation. With a background in architectural design, her practice explores the relationship between structure, light, and material through layered surfaces, geometry, and spatial experimentation.

Maha often begins with architectural frameworks and drafting logic, then disrupts and rebuilds them through texture, tension, and light. Her work includes paintings, mixed media pieces, ceramics, wood works, and suspended installations. Materials frequently include acrylic, graphite, iron shavings, fabric, ceramics, wood, and metal.

Light Made

Space Maker (La Jolla Historical Society)

Sacred Architecture (La Jolla Historical Society)

Light Made Visible (Third Space Gallery)

Glashaus

Brokers Building

Hello Neighbor (Tecture)

Open House (Tecture)

Thumbprint Gallery

Blue Morif

Commissions and Placements

Sharp HealthCare, permanent art placement commission (264 pieces)

Inquiries

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These bodies of work move across painting, mixed media, and sculpture, united by an ongoing interest in structure, perception, and material transformation. For exhibition, commission, or curatorial inquiries, please visit the Contact page.