Complicating Light and Space: Rosha Yaghmai at Kayne Griffin

A fireball pops from a dark background suffused with a dismal yellow glow. Below the red-orange orb, vague bluish masses border a deep-violet promontory. As one approaches this image, wavy patterns shimmer like mirages, confounding the eyes and interrupting the visual experience induced by Rosha Yaghmai’s painting, Afterimage, Red Eye, rendered in acrylic and ink on organza and cotton.
Yaghmai created each of the seven wall-hung pieces in “Afterimages” (all works 2021) at Kayne