Deli Grocery New York is pleased to present

Una Ceremonia: A New Body of Work by Abdul Mazid

[Brooklyn, March 2025] Abdul Mazid presents Una Ceremonia, a solo exhibition of new paintings. Departing from his conceptual approach, this body of work embraces a spiritual and physically transcribed process channeling intuition, ritual, and mark-making as acts of devotion.

Inspired by two decades of journeys into the wilderness and jungles of Southern and Central America, Mazid creates expansive color fields that serve as portals—vivid yet meditative expanses that invite contemplation. Layered over these fields, the meticulous repetition of oil pastel markings evokes ancient scripts, sacred texts, and lost languages. The works recall the ritualistic gestures of early human expression found in cave paintings, indigenous artifacts, and sacred objects. Drawing from the expressive fluidity of Morris Louis and the gestural, calligraphic energy of Cy Twombly, Una Ceremonia exists at the threshold between the ephemeral and the eternal, between personal experience and the collective consciousness.

Amid these abstract compositions, a few works introduce narrative imagery of wildlife, where brightly colored animals emerge from deep, saturated backgrounds of purples, blues, and blacks on soak-stained canvas. These images possess a psychedelic quality, reminiscent of dream states or spiritual visions, reinforcing the mystical undercurrents of the exhibition. The presence of these luminous creatures suggests a connection to ancestral wisdom, shamanic traditions, and the sacredness of the natural world.

Through this series, Mazid questions how we record and communicate the ineffable—the divine, the forgotten, the instinctual. Each canvas becomes a ceremony unto itself, a meditation on presence, time, and the unseen forces shaping our understanding of the world.

Una Ceremonia will be on view at Deli Grocery

March 21 - April 11 2025

361 stagg st

Brooklyn NY, 11206

309A

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