As a welding, painting, tattooing, and operations-managing artist, my work is a constant manipulation of the physical: metal, paint, ink, and bodies. While my hands bend, heat, and brush, my mind hovers in geometries. Plato’s inquiries into the timeless perfection of imagined geometric shapes, and into how geometries might lie behind all nature, inspire me to make objects that (though necessarily imperfect because they will never have perfect straight edges, and must eventually erode) tease our minds toward the perfect. The objects I make — always imperfectly embodying perfection — ask viewers to drift within that gap between the non-physical, conceptual realm and our tangible, sensory experience.
In that dialogue between the ethereal and the concrete, I navigate form, structure, and being. Each line, angle, and intersection in my geometric compositions is a deliberate attempt to distill the universal essence inherent in our world’s specific physical materials. How is it possible that hexagonal molecules of ink can be drawn into a two-dimensional octahedron on a shoulder, and how does that octahedron pull one into thinking about how that ideal shape align one’s skin with diamonds and fluorite? A welded steel hexahedron, suspended near the ceiling so its shadows stretch from corner to corner: The sculpture suggests the perfect, but its placement necessarily teases it into imperfections, pulling us back and forth between the possibilities.
My art works to poise viewers between those two, to feel the material while sensing the potential perfection out of which it can be built.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 SIGIL — Echo Park Art Gallery, 1729 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2024 Spectrum Gestalt — bG Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA
2024 PARAMNESIA — Echo Park Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Lost and Found — La Luz de Jesus, 4633 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2024 L.A. Open — TAG, 5458 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2024 Beauty of Stillness — Old Town Newhall Library, Santa Clarita, CA
2024 All Women — Light Space and Time Gallery, Online Exhibition
2024 Black, White, or Grey — Las Laguna Gallery, Online Exhibition
2023 Artist of the Autumn — UPWARD Gallery, online and print
2023 Apophenia — LAMAG, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2023 Art as Power — Blind Insect, 2841 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR
2023 228 — ADX, 417 SE 11th Ave. Portland, OR
2022 Art of Illumination — Past Lives, 2808 SE 9th Ave. Portland, OR
2022 The Print Matrix — Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th St. Portland, OR
2021 The Inked Image — Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th St. Portland, OR
2019 akrasia unbedingt: A Retrospective — 941 Willoughby Ave. Brooklyn, NY
2019 Prayer Circle — The Crypt, 261 Tompkins Ave. Brooklyn, NY
2018 Growing Pebbles — SLEEP CENTER, 9 Monroe St. New York, NY
2017 Novo ARTS — Goodshanks Loft, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Void, Vol. I, II — Infinite Balcony, 541 Hart St. Brooklyn, NY
2015 Grime Surge — 191 Henry St. New York, NY
2015 Locker Room Culture — Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Fall River, MA
2014 Unreasoned Order — NRM Gallery, 25 E. 25th St. New York, NY
2014 Rundgang — Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Artist in Residence — Ellsworth Residency, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2024 Rising Star Fellowship — Etcheve
2023 Winner, Artist of the Autumn — UPWARD Quarterly
2014 Philosophy & The Media Fellowship with Dr. Simon Critchley
2014 12th Street, Issue No. 7 — Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy
2010 Marjorie Flack Award for Fiction
Contact
marinafabricationarts@gmail.com
