Mehdi Ghadyanloo uses the trompe l’œil technique of his murals to compose his recent paintings, and they take on the shape of square boxes with dream-like imagery and hyperrealistic technique. Their architectural appearance reflects the artist’s investigation into designing and representing space on the canvas, evoking the visual and metaphysical constructions of Giorgio de Chirico. Ghadyanloo’s meticulous technique reminds us that in his youth he painted Persian miniatures in Iran. Each of his painting-boxes reveals his bril-liant ability to trick our eyes and our perception of reality. On what we thought was a flat surface, there appears a fenced-in space or a maze of slides." 
— Martha Kirszenbaum, writer and curator.