We are excited to showcase our first event collaboration
Amaia Marzabal 'Lost Identity' x The Porch
'Lost Identity' exhibit at The Porch marks the third collaboration in which the artist has been invited to showcase their art and transform the back of the old general store, originally built in 1890, as part of their work. This unique exhibition format offers an incredible opportunity to experience the artist's transformative vision, seamlessly blending their work with the historic space.
Amaia Marzabal
Artist Statement: In an increasingly globalized and globalizing reality, returning to identity has been central to my painting. Portraiture has become a search for the imperfect beauty of everyday life. This work is a celebration of that space between the public and the private: human relationships, social norms, emotions, self-awareness, imperfection, incompleteness and the ability to find a place in the world that resembles who we are. From the use of photographs of popular culture and surroundings, my paintings become imaginative of my own experience. Halfway between the private and the collective, patterns, abstractions and figuration are part of the amalgam of my voice, in constant mutation. Rather than an in-depth examination of the visual language of painting within contemporary visual culture, my work explores the simple trace of timeless everydayness in which different ways of being in the world converge. |
Biography: Amaia Gómez Marzabal has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a Masters Degree “Investigation and Creation in Arts: IN-CREARTE from the (UPV-EHU) University, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain. And a Masters Degree in Secondary Education by the VIU University, Valencia, Spain. She has received grants from the Kutxa Bank, Gobierno Vasco/ Euroregion/ Garapen and Etxepare Institute, Spain.
Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in Spain, Italy and USA, including a solo show at the Politecnico de Milano. Gómez Marzabal also works with the “Cerdas Collective”, who publish and exhibit regularly in Spain. Her most recent project has been the artist residency at ESKFF Foundation in Mana Contemporary Art Center NJ, where she has developed a new body of work. Her work is held in private collections in Europe and in the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation. |