On the Kitchen Table

Aliya Abs’s latest series is a luminous tribute to spring—a season of softness, awakening, and renewal. Across 21 intimately scaled paintings, she captures the fragile beauty of transformation with a gentle yet confident hand. Florals dominate the collection: delicate still lifes rendered in a light, romantic palette that conjures the first warmth of the season. In these works, color becomes emotion—pale pinks, warm creams, and soft greens suggest a world just beginning to bloom.

Threaded throughout the series are repeated dotted patterns, subtle gestures that introduce playfulness and hint at a deeper innocence. These marks act almost like petals themselves—scattered, intuitive, light-hearted. Within the bouquet of floral studies, four portraits offer a human counterpart to the blooming. Each woman, painted with quiet dignity, becomes a vessel for the emotional tenor of spring. In Florist, the emotional centerpiece of the show, Abs offers a portrait of calm resolve—of someone who arranges beauty not as a flourish, but as an act of strength.

Together, the works trace a seasonal and emotional arc. Their titles, tender and poetic, reinforce the feeling of being on the edge of something new. This is the world as seen through Abs’s eyes: a space where tenderness is a force, where hope unfurls slowly, petal by petal.