SEDA SAAR

Seda Saar is a Los Angeles–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the relationship between architecture, light, and perception. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she earned a degree in Interior Architecture before moving to California, where she spent more than two decades designing immersive environments for Disney, Universal Studios, and other internationally recognized entertainment and cultural projects.

Her background in architecture and spatial design informs a practice that transforms familiar structures into studies of geometry, reflection, and changing light. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Saar combines traditional drawing with contemporary digital processes and hand-applied media to investigate how light shapes our experience of space.

Saar’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in public and private collections, including WNDR Museum (Chicago), the City of Malibu, the City of Toronto, the City of Montreal, the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, and the Yerevan Modern Art Museum.

She lives and works in Malibu, California.

Artist Statement

Spacelines

Spacelines is an ongoing series exploring Southern California’s iconic architecture

through the changing qualities of light. Rather than documenting buildings, I reinterpret them—reconstructing their forms through geometry, reflection, perspective, and abstraction to reveal new spatial experiences.

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Each composition begins with research, photography, perspective drawing, and architectural analysis. Drawing on techniques developed through my training in Interior Architecture, I reconstruct and refine each composition digitally before producing an archival pigment print on 300 gsm archival watercolor paper. Every print is then individually transformed through layers of acrylic paint, metallic silver linework, and graphite into a unique original work.

By reducing architecture to its essential geometric language and reimagining space through light and perspective, Spacelines invites viewers to experience familiar landmarks in unexpected ways, where perception is continually shifting and architecture becomes a catalyst for imagination.

— Seda Saar

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