Dari is a self taught painter from Detroit, Michigan, who lives in New York and currently works in Berlin. His work explores restraint, compression, and the unstable space between abstraction and recognition. Influenced by observation and distance, the paintings reflect what it means to witness rather than fully participate.

His practice begins with construction: he cuts the wood needed for his frames, builds the stretcher bars, and prepares each canvas by hand, treating the time before paint as inseparable from the final image. Layers of gesso are sanded to create a flat, resistant ground that holds pressure and determines how forms meet and settle into space. Nothing is incidental; each decision is deliberate.

His work moves between two visual languages that share the same concern with perception. Sharply masked forms create structure and containment, while sprayed and diffused surfaces introduce erosion and instability. Both approaches test how little information an image needs before a viewer begins constructing meaning. The eye is given just enough to trigger recognition, but not enough to confirm it. Forms hover between abstraction and familiarity, almost appearing before dissolving again.

At GlogauAIR, Dari is allowing structure and erosion to coexist within the same surface, testing how much control can be maintained before an image begins to dissolve. The paintings do not resolve themselves. They ask how long the viewer is willing to stay with uncertainty.