Maria Stabio’s recent work moves beyond the brush to luminous, multilayer narratives crafted out of shape and pigment. Inspired by a series of recent trips to visit family in the Philippines, these pieces are a dreamlike web of the familiar and the unfamiliar, which speak to the disjointed experience of finding personal identity and heritage in a place that is also foreign. Tropical plants, shoes, and plates of food are layered alongside scenes of taking a shower, walking in the rain, and using a flashlight. The overlaid silhouettes create a confusion of color, shape, and positive and negative space in which these identifiable subjects lose their familiarity and begin to become something new. 

Artist: Maria Stabio

Fire 003, 2020

18 x 12 inches

Unframed

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