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Close-up of a smooth, shiny, light-colored spherical object next to a darker background.
A pink star-shaped ornament hanging from a string of colorful fairy lights against a pink background.
Close-up of a pink, textured fabric with shiny, star-like highlights.
Close-up of a person's chin and lower cheek with makeup and highlight on the skin.

:: maria jean : agent of design from the glam0ur lab0ratory soundbl0b in liQuid 0uter space :: her work seamlessly synthesizes principles of art + design by hybridizing physical and digital media, melting the boundary between reality and artifice while incorporating thematic and stylistic elements of nostalgia, kitsch, and sex informed by early exposure to canons of the caLif0rnia aesthetic, including the finish fetish style and light + space movement :: she holds a bfa in fashion design from the n3w sch00L pars0ns paris and is the director of curation at after / time gallery in p0rtLand, 0reg0n, usa ::

  • 2026

    April - Stockholm - Supermarket Art Fair - Exhibitor

    2025

    July - Seattle - Seattle Art Fair - Exhibitor

    May - Berlin - The Farm + Distillery - Farm Abstract - Exhibitor

    April - Stockholm - Supermarket Art Fair - Exhibitor

    April - San Francisco - San Francisco Art Fair - Exhibitor

    2024

    September - Portland - after / time Gallery - Solo Exhibition - sex

    July - Portland - after / time Gallery - Member

    2019

    February - Portland - Gallery 101 at Everett Station Lofts - Super Salon 2 - Exhibitor

    2018

    September - Portland - Gallery 101 @ Everett Station Lofts - Super Salon 1 - Exhibitor

    May - Paris - Mona Bismarck American Center - Parsons Paris Festival - Exhibitor

    May - Paris - Élysée Montmartre - Graduation Runway Show - Exhibitor

    Paris - The New School Parsons Paris - BFA Fashion Design

  • Oh, my god. Is this the page where I talk about myself? I don’t particularly enjoy talking about myself, and I dislike discussing art even more. Is it not enough that it simply be felt? Sometimes people ask me questions - great questions - and I struggle to give a response that adequately meets the criteria of eloquence to which all children ought to be held. To be fair, though, it is quite a lot of information - much too much, at times. Here are some F.A.Q.s.

    faq 01 - “What is this? Is this real?”

    Yes and no. Both and neither. At the core of my work is a profound attachment to analogue media, formed over years of incessant drawing. For this reason, I try to include some element of the physical world even in artworks that primarily employ digital media. purely digital artwork is soulless.

    faq 02 - “What’s yer medium?”

    These days, it’s my computer - and all the sensational things that it can do. It allows me to achieve perfection, an obsession that I have a sneaking suspicion is related to my fascination with the Light + Space movement of the 1960s and 1970s. (Look it up and fall in love!) The computer is also the answer to an important question: “How am I going to get all of this done?” I am not always able to keep up with my brain, but the computer comes preeeeee-tty close. I think that for many individuals, the computer as a tool for any manner of artistic creation or self-expression stems from necessity, when examined at the root level.

    faq 03 - “What’s your work about?”

    Beauty. Music. Sensuality. Magic. Friendship. Longing. The ocean. California.

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