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Maya KabatBegin Again 9, Contemporary Abstract Color Block Painting, 16 x 20 in.2025
2025
$2,000
£1,526.05
€1,736
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Begin Again 9 is a quietly resonant abstract painting that reflects the artist’s ongoing commitment to building meaning through restraint, revision, and the physical record of process. Constructed from layered rectangular planes, the composition feels both architectural and intuitive—blocks of softened whites and warm earth tones are anchored by a saturated red field, while a small, luminous green passage acts like a held note within the structure. The result is measured but emotionally alive, rewarding sustained looking through subtle shifts in color temperature, edge, and surface.
True to the artist’s broader oeuvre, this work operates as a palimpsest: evidence of decisions made, reworked, and clarified over time. The surface alternates between smooth atmospheric transitions and raised seams, ridges, and textural edges that remain intentionally visible—marking where layers meet, where boundaries are tested, and where the painting’s history is allowed to stay present. Rather than presenting a single, fixed image, Begin Again 9 suggests an accumulation of moments, with each layer contributing to the final equilibrium.
The artist’s recurring vocabulary—horizontal bands, stacked forms, and calibrated color relationships—reappears here with particular clarity. These elements evoke constructed spaces, horizons, or interior walls, while also nodding to the logic of quilt-making: pieced sections, joined edges, and the intimacy of assembled fragments becoming a cohesive whole. Like a quilt, the painting carries a sense of structure and care—units arranged through feel as much as design—where variation, repetition, and “seaming” become part of the beauty. Within the context of the artist’s practice, Begin Again 9 reads as a distilled expression of that ethos: quiet intensity over spectacle, tactility over polish, and renewal as a guiding principle—where beginning again is not a reset, but a continuation, made visible in paint.
- Creator:Maya Kabat (1971, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU416317356062
Maya Kabat
Through densely worked surfaces, California artist Maya Kabat builds oil paintings where abstraction and process converge. Using drywall tools, she layers slabs and ridges of pigment into rectilinear forms, each mark carrying the momentum of her hand and body. Her dynamic surfaces balance order and spontaneity, inviting viewers into a tactile, visceral encounter. Vivid colors and shifting geometries echo both landscape and the human body, while her sensitivity to pattern and structure reflects an ongoing influence from quilt making. Kabat earned her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from UC Davis. She was a founding member of the artist-run gallery, Mercury Twenty, in Oakland. Residencies include The London Intensive, sponsored by the Camden Arts Centre in London, the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Artist Residency in New Berlin, New York and the Gambrell Gallery Artist Residency in Ashland, Oregon. She has exhibited at many West Coast galleries such as Vielmetter Gallery (Los Angeles) and SLATE Contemporary (Oakland). Her work is represented in the collections of Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, Stanford Hospitals, and The Neiman Marcus Collection. Select press includes a 2023 feature in 48 Hills, with additional reviews in East Bay Monthly, Art Ltd., SF Weekly, and the San Jose Mercury News. Her studios are in North Berkeley and in Oakland, California, at The Dome—workspaces established in 1976 by the artists Anne and Peter Voulkos
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