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Mackenzie Maisel is a New York–based painter whose work operates as a visual diary of spiritual inquiry within contemporary culture. Influenced in part by a family history that includes two aunts who were nuns, she approaches painting as both a devotional act and a site of questioning—examining how belief is formed, performed, and reimagined today.

Beginning her artistic practice at twelve, she advanced from private training to commissioned work before earning a BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP program and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her professional experience spans art therapy, cinematic production, luxury fashion, collection management, art appraisals, and art historical research—enriching both her creative vision and understanding of the art market.

At the beginning of 2025, Maisel took the leap to become a full-time artist in New York City. Since then, her work has traveled widely—across New York, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Tennessee, Miami, London, Spain, Italy, and Puerto Rico—and appeared in Times Square, Christie’s events, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Miami Art Week, and given her the ability to create and perform at venues including Carnegie Hall, NYFW, film and television sets, and more. In 2025 alone, she produced over 150 paintings.

Working in oil, gold leaf, and mixed media, Maisel constructs layered compositions that reclaim sacred iconography through a contemporary, often surreal lens. Her paintings function as symbolic arenas where the sacred and cultural, the eternal and immediate, collide. Exploring the tension between spirituality and spectacle, devotion and display, Maisel transforms personal experience, religious language, and contemporary life into luminous, contested images that ask where the divine persists in an image-saturated world.