'Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is a sweeping survey of the artist’s last twenty years of work in which visitors bear witness to dazzling personal and collective worlds and embedded gestures that explode across and beyond the confines of the canvases. Alchemy, indeed, lies at the core of the enigmatic topographies and difficult-to-discern figures in paintings that are distinctively grounded in a fusion of abstraction and figuration—not as painterly strategy but as an outcome of an intuitive, empathic process involving synesthesia, a phenomenon unique to certain individuals in which one sense triggers a response in another sense.'
Image: installation view of Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist at the Katonah Museum of Art, 2025Photo by Jason Mandella
June 4 2025
