WORKS on the WALL | Amaia Marzaba
Opening Reception: November, 1st 6 to 8pm

Exhibit: November 1st to 30th, 2024

BIO

Amaia G. Marzabal has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a Masters Degree in Artsfrom the (UPV-EHU) University, Leioa, Spain. And a Masters Degree in Secondary Education by the VIU University, Spain. She has received grants from the Kutxa Bank, Basque Government / Euroregion/ Garapen and Etxepare Institut, Spain.

Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in Spain, Italy and USA, including a solo show at the Politecnico de Milano. She has been artist in residency at Nars Foundation NY and ESKFF Foundation in Mana Contemporary Art Center NJ, where she has developed a new body of work.

Her work is held in private collections in Europe and in the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation.

STATEMENT

In an increasingly globalized -and globalizing- reality, returning to identity has been central to my painting. Portraiture has become a search for the imperfect beauty of everyday life.

My works are a celebration of that in-between space between the public and the private: human relationships, social norms, emotions, self-awareness imperfection, incompleteness and the ability to find a place in the world that resembles who we are. From the use of photographs of popular culture and my surroundings my paintings become imaginary of what my own experience is.

Halfway between the private and the collective, patterns, abstractions and figuration are part of the amalgam of my voice, in constant mutation. Rather than an in-depth examination of the visual language of painting within contemporary visual culture, my work explores the simple trace of timeless everydayness in which different ways of being in the world converge.