This week’s featured artist from the exhibition, Towards Abstraction, on view at Town Hall through August 3rd is Mina Seetharaman. Mina’s abstractions are the record of an artist’s dialogue with the work. Each action or mark is a response to what was laid down on the canvas before. Like Jazz musicians improvising off each other during a performance, Mina’s paintings are a delicate balance of chaos and order.

Mina Seetharaman is an abstract artist living in New York's Hudson Valley. For Mina, painting is about spontaneous experiments with color, flow, and composition. She often starts with an idea, and serendipity lands her in a very different place. So much of our lives is governed by rules, structure, constraints. She uses her artwork as a counter to this, a way of learning to find beauty and contentment in what she cannot wholly control.

To inquire about these works or to check out other works by Mina Seetharaman, please check out her website: www.ms-artwork.com or follow her on Instagram: @mina_msartwork

Hazy Shades of Winter

2023
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

Moby Orange

2022
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
24 x 36 inches

Pearl Earring Revisited

2022
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 inches

Searching

2022
Acrylic, oil pastel, graphite, and gold
leaf on canvas
36 x 24 inches