An Afternoon with Artist Mursal Nazary

Blue has been a point of fascination for many artists—Maggie Nelson, Picasso, Matthew Wong, Yves Klein, Joni Mitchell. Equal parts ungraspable, rare, and emotional, blue in art evades understanding. Like looking into a vast impasse, blue paintings allow the viewer to get lost in looking.

The prominance of a blue monochromatic pallette in artist Mursal N…