MARIA STABIO
Maria Stabio’s paintings thematizes a variety of elements related to her Philippine heritage. By layering stencils and paint, Stabio achieves a non-uniform surface, shadow effects, and fine dot patterns within crisp outlines. Symbols of environment such as bubbling lava, lightening bolts, palm fronds, and cumulus clouds overlap, while basketballs released into the air from open hands and spoons and forks surrounding an egg, reference popular traditions and shared meals. As Alex Santana writes, “Stabio’s images are an amalgamation of evocative, dreamlike components that operate like how memory works: effervescent, elusive, and determined by one’s own psychological and spiritual proximity.'“ Maria Stabio was born in 1985 in San Francisco, CA and lives and works in Barnesville, Pennsylvania. She received a BFA in Painting from Boston University in 2007 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2012.
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