ARTIST STATEMENT
Female as Object is a series of womanly stories – inconclusive and open to interpretation; beautifully miserable beings poetically poised to suggest an uncertain end. Drawing inspiration from modern pop culture and high-end fashion magazines, appropriating famous advertisements, photographs, and film stills that touch on an all-too American sense of emptiness. The compositions are divorced from the framework of a larger narrative; taking seemingly kinetic moments in time – actions frozen from an unknown narrative and recontextualized into a new narrative that questions reality or fantasy along with various points of literary perspective.
On Guard
Oil on Canvas
48″ x 40″On Guard Detail p.s. I love you
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48″ x 40″Another Day in Paradise
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22″ x 17″Contemplation
Oil on Panel
36″ x 24″Contemplation Detail Daydream
Oil on CanvasOld Habits
Oil on Canvas
40″ x 48″Sunday Dinner
Oil on Canvas
7″ x 7″Mad Hatter
Oil on CanvasPillow Fight
Oil on Canvas
8″ x 9″Power
Oil on Panel
36″ x 24″Power Detail Smokin’
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16″ x 11″The Cawing
Oil on Canvas
16″ x 20″Stage Fright
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36″ x 24″Stage Fright Detail West End Girls
Oil on Canvas 28″ x 36″Detail from West End Girls
Captivated by the teachings of Carl Jung, Plato, Michel Foucault, Greek mythology, and Joseph Campbell, I now find myself searching for answers within the study of psycho dynamics – the systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, especially the dynamic relations between conscious and unconscious motivation – . Maria Maneos
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