Untethered: Dancing Queen Painting

Maya Malioutina is a contemporary artist exploring themes of vulnerability, transformation, and self-reflection through figurative and minimalist expressionism. Her work captures the raw, unfiltered essence of human emotion, often balancing between bold simplicity and deep introspection. Using a restrained yet evocative color palette, she distills figures down to their essential forms, allowing emotion to surface through composition, gesture, and negative space. Each piece is a quiet dialogue between the seen and the unseen, the conscious and the subconscious—an exploration of identity, memory, and the shifting landscapes of the inner self. Malioutina’s artistic approach is intuitive, embracing imperfections and spontaneity as part of the creative process. Through her work, she invites viewers to pause, reflect, and connect with their own inner worlds.