Marina Chisty is a Russian-born, New York-based artist whose abstract paintings explore transformation, impermanence, and the life of materials. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in Economics from Fordham University. Working with pigment, water, acrylic, and charcoal, Chisty creates paintings that move between control and chance. Her surfaces often resemble geological formations—echoing erosion, sedimentation, and organic growth. She treats materials as living elements rather than static tools, allowing water and pigment to flow, merge, and settle in their own ways. Her process is guided by observation and response: each mark, stain, or trace records an event in time. Through these layered interactions, her paintings capture the quiet tension of matter in motion—a reflection on how everything in nature, including ourselves, is constantly changing and becoming. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and works from her studio in Long Island City, New York.