Mazarine Memon

Mazarine Memon's gentle paintings, executed with careful attention to each subject's integrity, emphasize the contradiction between progress and the still unchanging role of women throughout much of the world. Born in Mumbai, Memon has been shaped by India's cultural diversity and she uses soft strokes and colors that flow in and out of each other to warmly render that diversity. From a distance, the figures in Memon's paintings resemble red rivers that diffuse into earthier lakes of blues and browns. Moving closer reveals the intricate, introspective female figures that work diligently in the paintings' planes. This push and pull between abstraction and realism gives Memon's work a quiet indeterminacy. While the exact location and activity of figures is hazy, the rendering always captures their humanness and sincerity.

Mazarine Memon studied Applied Arts at Bombay's Sophia College before beginning her career as an art director. Never happy with the corporate world, Memon eventually left and pursued her own art. She has exhibited internationally and currently teaches at Dubai International Art Centre.