About
BIO
Christina Habibi is an abstract artist from Tehran, Iran, working from her studio in Athens, GA. She has maintained a studio practice for over 30 years, developing her work through an intuitive, process-driven approach.
Her paintings are built over time through layering, revision, and physical engagement with the surface. She works without a fixed plan, allowing each piece to evolve through a series of decisions made in the moment.
Habibi’s work has been exhibited across galleries in the U.S., cameoed in the acclaimed film Dear White People, and featured in the Twin Cities PBS series Minnesota Original.
Statement
My work moves between abstraction, text, and a kind of unstable figuration. Forms emerge that suggest presence and interaction, but never fully resolve, they shift, overlap, and resist being fixed.
I don’t begin with a clear image. The work develops through accumulation and interruption, where gestures and language begin to compete with each other. The text isn’t there to explain anything, it anchors the surface, but also disrupts it. It introduces meaning and then unsettles it. What interests me is that tension, how we try to hold something in place, through image or through words, and how quickly that breaks down. The paintings exist in that space where something feels recognizable, but never fully certain.
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