Biography
Peruvian native Maria Baraybar came to the United States at the age of 8 with white sand in her shoes and a head full of questions. The youngest of an immigrant family moving around in the US shaped a young Baraybar’s sensitivities. Trying to answer those questions through poetry, she found her self-expression through the Visual Arts. A coping mechanism soon turned into a lifeline. Eschewing conventional art school studies, Baraybar opted for broader education, embracing non-traditional channels to creativity.
Baraybar’s work has been featured in several NYC galleries and is currently on view at Brooklyn’s Nu Hotel. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her partner Allison Tray and their cats Julio and Gertie.
Artist Statement
The inspiration behind Artie’s Red Shoe Diaries came out of a personal situation. I’ve had to endure the difficult process of becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen all my life in the states. 20 yrs of hiding in the shadows with an unresolved immigration case left me with one choice: survival. Survival became more important than self, more important than happiness, more important than my dreams. Faced with my life’s own unique set of absurd trials and tribulations, I created an imaginary friend named Artie. This genderless character became my own life force. These unique experiences opened up the opportunity to document the often “peculiar” way of life in suburban America while exploring the juxtaposition of absurdity and meaning through travelogue note-type drawings.
Website
www.mariabaraybar.com
Tags: Drawing
Bridge Series 01182007
2008
2.5″ x 2.5″
Laminate, Paper, Socket Head Cap Screws
Bird Raptor Series 12122007
2009
10″ x 12″
Laminate, Paper, Socket Head Cap Screws
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Dirigible
2009
3″ x 2″
Laminate, Paper, Socket Head Cap Screws
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Urban Formations Series 08172009
2009
10″ x 12″
Laminate, Paper, Socket Head Cap Screws, Acrylite
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Moses’ Monument
2010
17″ x 11″
Laminate, Paper, Socket Head Cap Screws, Acrylite
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Artist Statement
There is a curious deliverance to lamination, the process central to my work. Combined with the differentiation and re-assemblage of photographic images, lamination is both a repetition of, and a difference from, alienation. Parts of images go into the machine, get heated up, and come out enclosed, individualized, sealed off. Yet combined with other similar strata they form a three-dimensional dreamscape, separate from reality yet animated by its possibility.
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My technique takes as its point of departure the photographic image isolated into its core subjects, whether those elements be objects, people, light or space. Once deciphered, I focus on how such elements can be rebuilt as sculpture, with depth and connection. Floating, separate, but bound and connected by that which separates, the result is both serene and odd, an interruption to the economics of plastics that bind, a laminated love that, though not supreme, shines on nonetheless.
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Website
www.laminatedlove.com
Tags: Photography
Save the Date – INSIGHT Vol. III Release Party
Saturday, October 16 from 7-11pm
F.O.K.U.S. INSIGHT Volume III | Issue 3
Triomph Fitness
540 President Street, Brooklyn NY
Art in Brooklyn will be co-hosting the event, and we’re looking to show work by local artists. To be considered, please submit a jpeg file with image details (size, medium, title) by September 7th to artinbrooklyn@gmail.com
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