Lorna Barimi is an Albanian American artist living and working in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her practice moves fluidly between oil painting and works on paper, exploring themes of emotion, femininity, mysticism, and the subconscious.

At the center of her work is an obsession with emotion — not only its beauty, but also its shadow. She stands for the liberation of the self from the conditioned preconception of what one’s emotional experience should be. Her work insists on acknowledging the totality of feeling, especially the parts that are disowned, disavowed, or deemed socially unacceptable.

Through layered surfaces, sensuous forms, and symbolic imagery, Barimi creates spaces where these hidden emotional states can be seen and felt. In doing so, her paintings invite viewers into an intimate dialogue with the subconscious — a confrontation with the unspoken, the erotic, the mystical, and the deeply human.