EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS PRESENTING WORKS EXPLORING STRUCTURE, LIGHT, AND MATERIAL…
Maha Bazzari’s exhibitions present work exploring the relationship between architecture, material processes, and spatial perception. Through photography, painting, and mixed media works, her practice investigates how structure, light, and surface interact to shape visual experience.
Current Exhibitions
Space Maker
La Jolla Historical Society
La Jolla, California · February 21 – June 7, 2026
Space Maker considers the relationship between art, design, and architecture through the work of creative practitioners whose artistic practices exist alongside their roles as makers of space. The exhibition highlights how visual artists, architects, designers, and related disciplines share a common language of structure, form, material, and perception.
Maha Bazzari’s work is presented as part of this broader exhibition, reflecting her ongoing exploration of light, geometry, atmosphere, and the emotional qualities of space. Her contribution aligns with the exhibition’s interest in how spatial thinking moves between architecture and art, transforming built form into visual and perceptual experience.
The exhibition invites viewers to consider how artists shape not only images and objects, but also the ways we understand space itself.
Related Programming
- Painting Workshop with Maha Bazzari — May 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Un/Grounded
Bivouac Ciderworks Adventure Lodge
San Diego, California · March 2026
Un/Grounded is a collaborative exhibition by Maha Bazzari and JenMarie Landig exploring the tension between structure and fluidity through layered surfaces, material experimentation, and spatial composition.
The exhibition reflects on grounding and movement as both physical and emotional conditions. Through painting and photography, the work considers texture as a bridge between stability and uncertainty. Architectural lines, layered pigments, iron shavings, reflective surfaces, and tactile interventions create compositions that feel both anchored and in motion.
Installed within the social setting of Bivouac Ciderworks, the exhibition invites viewers to encounter the work in an environment shaped by conversation, gathering, and shared experience.
Related Programming
- Opening Reception
- Artist Talk
- Abstract Painting Workshop — Workshop Details
Selected Past Exhibitions
Light Made Visible
The 3rd Space
San Diego, California · April 1 – June 15, 2025
Light Made Visible was a mixed-media exhibition presenting paintings by multidisciplinary artist Maha Bazzari alongside photographs by JenMarie Landig. Through architectural, figurative, and abstract compositions, the exhibition explored how light shapes contrast, line, form, memory, and emotion.
The works moved between photography and painting while sharing a common visual language grounded in atmosphere, perception, and structure. Together, the exhibition examined how light can function not only as illumination, but as material, subject, and emotional force.
Related Programming
- Opening Reception — April 4, 2025
- Mindful Movement and Creativity Workshop — April 26, 2025
- Artist Talk and Live Painting — May 25, 2025
The exhibition was presented with sponsorship by Agents of Architecture.
Sacred Architecture
La Jolla Historical Society
La Jolla, California
Sacred Architecture considered the spiritual and emotional resonance of built space through photographic works attentive to form, rhythm, and atmosphere. The exhibition reflects Bazzari’s ongoing interest in how architecture can hold memory, stillness, and presence.
Through careful framing and sensitivity to light, the work examines how sacred and communal spaces carry meaning beyond function, revealing architecture as both shelter and symbol.
Related Programming
Additional Exhibitions and Showings
- Glashaus
- Brokers Building
- Hello Neighbor — Tecture
- Open House — Tecture
- Thumbprint Gallery
- Blue Motif — Architectural Office Exhibition, Little Italy, San Diego
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. The artwork draws from San Diego’s diverse environments, including coastal landscapes, desert formations, and atmospheric studies of light and terrain.
The installation was developed in close collaboration with the design and healthcare teams to create a calming visual environment that supports patient wellbeing while reflecting the surrounding region.
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