Info on Prints

/ Most of my paintings and film photography can be ordered as prints!

/ Shoot me a DM over instagram @mahaliaxs or through email smithmahalia@gmail.com to select various content options if not listed in catalog above

Bio

/ Mahalia Xiaoqi Smith is a Washington, DC-based female visual artist who specializes in impressionistic oil painting. After working with a wide array of mediums in her earlier years, she was later drawn to specialize in oil painting with a stylistic emphasis on abstract impressionism and expressionism as this style emboldens the free expression, emotion, movement, and living form that her work aims to embody.

/ Today, she works as an independent contemporary painter, illustrator, designer, and photographer. She draws inspiration from the forces of raw emotion and living experience and places an emphasis on bold colors and strokes, often incorporating drip brushwork into her paintings to help cultivate unique and personal emotion and perspective.

Artist Statement

/ I see that everything is alive. Every living thing exists within its own vibrations, sounds, and feelings. With my art, I aim to bring this living nature into play through expressive drip brushwork and bold strokes that I find emblematic of life’s bold and ever-changing, spiraling emotions and experiences.

Through interaction of purpose and accident, I strive to expose through living expression in my work what is often camouflaged on the shiny surface of life and individual. My goal is to evoke this life form and inspire those who see my work to deconstruct what these emotions, memories, and experiences might mean for them in their unique lives.

As a female visual artist, I find deep significance in being able to fully own, celebrate, and share my personal narrative through my art forms. Too often in today’s world, I find myself or my experiences becoming intertwined or even overwhelmed with narratives and retellings that others choose for me. Through my art, I reclaim what is and always has been wholly mine. Myself, my life, my emotions, my experiences, my stories, my perspective, and my love for connecting through and unveiling the real, lived expressions and experiences that mold our intricate existence.