Mellow Painting

Gloria Haghpasand (b. 1982) is a visual artist based in Stockholm. Haghpasand’s work — which ranges from the provocative to the introspective — is a liberating and limitless reflection on circumstance and contradictions. Predominantely working with canvas and mixed media, the self taught artist is driven by a visual commitment to her emotions, creating captivating compositions that engage and challenge. After being surrounded by art during her childhood, her journey has since taken many paths before she returned to painting in 2011. Now based in Stockholm, Haghpasand’s work depicts her own unfiltered experiences with a spontaneous and natural expression. The diversity in the work owes much to her love of material exploration but larger recurring themes are also found. Reflections of lives lived, between decadence and provocation, and explorations of luxury and decay are the foundation for a majority of the work. By highlighting and consolidating the disparity between success and its destructive backside, she removes the perceived difference between the two and represents them as one. While her work is confident and playful, it carries a more subversive tone that revels in contradiction.