Maryam Hoseini’s paintings depict fragmented—often female—bodies floating in abstract, flattened architectural spaces, in suggestive, but open-ended narratives. “These fractured spaces and fragmented bodies, that is somehow the reflection of my own personal experiences and life,” says Maryam Hoseini in our “New York Close Up” film. “I'm interested in the space between painting and drawing.” “That in between space provides some sort of openness for the bodies to move fluidly, for the viewers' int