Artist Maria Kreyn
Russia, 24 December 1987
Education: Angel Studios, Toronto, 2004
School of Representational Art, Chicago, 2004-2005
University of Chicago, 2005-2006
Apprenticeships: Iceland, Norway, France 2006- 2008
Maria lives and works in New York
Maria's work is a fusion of the baroque old master technical experience and contemporary psychology. It offers a critique of together-ness in a world where humanity finds itself so separate from deep sentiment, and from nature. Maria's training in mathematics reveals itself subtly in her paintings' graphic design: often referencing permutations and inversions, duplicates and triples. Similarly, a background in philosophy forces spiritual or archetypal elements to pierce through the canvas:
"What brings me to painting is sensuality and movement, and the focused energy of a timeless story spatially wrapped into a single moment. It is about looking at the vastness of our life slowly and deeply, and connecting our heart back into that ecstatic and tragic shared experience."
