Sara Issakharian is a mixed-media painter based between Los Angeles and Berlin. Born and raised in Tehran, her work takes up themes such as the grief of emigration, women’s oppression, and state violence. Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, ‘There’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there,’ which opened at Tanya Leighton Gallery in August 2021, explores the duality of light and darkness. Her work will be included in an upcoming group exhibition, “Abstract Now,” at SITE131 in Dallas, Texas.