Elissa Mora is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work centers on memory, everyday life and the quiet tension between the two.

Drawing from inherited stories, personal experiences, and cultural references—including Mexican cinema—her paintings depict familiar moments interrupted by symbolic and surreal elements.

Working primarily with oil and gold leaf, she builds layered compositions where patterns, light, and repetition suggest the presence of memory beneath the surface of daily life.

Her work focuses on the space between what is seen and what is felt, where meaning is not fixed but gradually revealed.