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:: 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 ::
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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
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“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.
“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 pretty close. I think that for many individuals the computer as a tool for any manner of artistic creation or self-expression stems is born of necessity, when examined at the root level.
“What’s your work about?”
Beauty. Music. Sensuality. Magic. Friendship. Longing. The ocean. California.