Yousif Nasr

Yousif Nasr is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and oil painter. His paintings are shaped by his background in film, with an emphasis on mood, composition, and the feeling that something has just happened, or is about to.

Working mostly in oil, he’s drawn to quiet, charged moments: figures alone in a room, a look held too long, light falling across a face or an interior. His work often sits somewhere between portraiture and a still from an unfinished story, leaving space for the viewer to fill in what came before and after.

Nasr is interested in tension, memory, desire, and the unease that can live beneath ordinary scenes. His paintings favor atmosphere over explanation, using color, shadow, and restraint to suggest more than they reveal.