Maryam is a New York City-based Iranian artist. Maryam's work combines a simplicity of form and shape using bold colors and an energetic yet delicate and precise application of paint to surface. The work often touches on abstraction as she experiments with composition and colour combination giving each work its own energy but also balance. Maryam's small paintings of women in chador are both simple and wonderfully evocative. Although she simplifies the figures and their environments, and the women are fully covered and viewed from the back, they seem to present us with their different stories.