Maya Jimsheleishvili

I paint mostly women and flowers, not as decoration, but as allegory. Flowers carry
something essentially feminine for me, the same emotional unpredictability and many-
layered nature I find in a woman's inner state. My figurative work is mostly oil, based on
reality, but that reality is translated into my own visual language the color of the sky
changed, an environment turned dreamlike. The women in these paintings are facets of
myself, and of other women, different states of being a female that don't yet have
words for me, but have a form and a color, painting is a way out.
When I move into abstraction, something else takes over. These works are mixed media,
driven by a masculine force, the line gets harder, more deliberate, the brushstrokes
almost willful. This masculine drive is in conversation with the feminine energy of my
figurative work, soft, intuitive, emotional. Figuration lets me speak as a woman;
abstraction lets me speak with a masculine energy.
I try to keep the process honest. Nothing in my paintings develops as a concept I set
out to illustrate; it finds its own terms. That's not always easy, there's a fear, somewhere
underneath, of taking up too much space. But the moments that matter most are the
ones where I for...

graduated Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2003. studied interior design and art at Central St.Martyn`s College in 2009 (London),

Washington, D.C. National Library ( 2017)

"Energy of Colours". Tbilisi (2016)

"BEYOND COLOR". Vaal Gallery, Tallinn (2012)

Ambience Salon, Tbilisi (2011)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Woman`s Essence. Berlin (2023)

Reveal Art Fair, Saratoga Springs, New York ( 2018)

"Woman’s Essence," Foundation PONS, Madrid, Spain (2018)

Art3F, Paris (2018)

Macau Art Museum, Macau (March–May 2018)

"We Contemporary," Palermo, Italy (October 2018)

Biennale Belvedere di San Leucio, Italy (October 2017)

Global Art Awards, Armani Hotel, Dubai

Best portrait nomenee (2017)

Biennale di Florence (2017)

"We Contemporary," Rome, Italy ( 2017)

NEW YORK ARTEXPO (April 2017)

Art Monaco (2016)

International Art Festival, Tbilisi (2014)

International Art Festival, Mtskheta, Georgia (2013)

Gallery Universe, Tbilisi (2003, 2009)

State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi (2002)

My works are featured in private collections in Georgia, New York,
Monaco, Dubai, London, California, Paris, ST. Paul de Vance and Tallin.