STATEMENT

The body is the central image in my work – its systems, its cycles, and its politics.

The female body, inside and out, is a minefield of gender politics. Using menstrual blood as paint and women's clothes as canvas, using my drawings of the body as shooting targets, are ways I have attempted to express the complexity of living in a female body.

The end of life and those rituals around the body, the many ways of thinking about death, the culmination of a life, the passage of time, all have a haunting combination of literalness and mystery for me. This permeates my work in the images I printed on old death certificates, the miniature burial grounds I sculpted, the letters I wrote to death, my own coffin that I built.

Now after many years of art making, I continue to find inspiration in the lived   life of the body. This journey is a privilege, no matter where I find myself on that road, and I want to express that in my art.

To see more work visit www.mariaepes.com

Maria Epes

 

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Maria Epes

220 Park Lane, Atherton, California 94027
650.328.1914
www.mariaepes.com

Education
	B. F. A. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY M. F. A. California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Selected Exhibitions Individual
2007	End of the   Line Design, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2001-04	Rooms of My Own at The Healing House, An Installation at 687 Seminary Ave, Rahway, NJ
2001	Female Obsessions, Ceres Gallery, NYC
1999	Fellow Travellers, A 15-Year Retrospective, Serrahima Galeria d'art, Barcelona, Spain
1997	Blood Work and Body Parts, Ceres Gallery, NYC
1996	Spooners in the Land of Forks, La Mama La Galleria, NYC
1994	Kill Yourself/Kiss Yourself, La Mama La Galleria, NYC Art Ex Libris, Artspace, Richmond, VA
Group
2006	Genderland, A Collaborative Project, LHUCA Icehouse, Lubbock, TX Here was New York, World Trade Center Art, Brooklyn Artists, NYC
2005	The Thread Project, One World, One Cloth, Isle of Palms, SC
2004	Constellations, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2002	World Trade Center Exhibits: Reaction, Exit Art, NYC; Unity Canvas, NYC; NJ Print Council, NJ, September 11 Memorial Portfolio: American Print Alliance, Atlanta, GE; 9/11: The Artists Respond, The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ; Powersurge, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2000	Corazonada, Serrahima Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
1999	Artists' Books, Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
1998	Women Artists in the NASA Art Program, NASA 40th Anniversary, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
Selected Bibliography
	http://www.haberarts.com/globalf.htm#role, http://www.cindynemser.blogspot.com/, April/May 2007, “Feminisms in the Singular, “ John Haber http://www.haberarts.com/epes.htm, April 2007 “Self-Portrait with Bullet Holes with Postscript,” John Haber Home News Tribune, August 2002, “She hones her art and the art of living,” Tamari Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, Winter 2000, “The Aesthetics of Blood,” Perlmutter El Mundo, June 1999, “Maria Epes escenifica su obsesion por la muerte,” Uberquoi El Pais, July 1999, “Un art de sang i fum,” Serra; also Vanguardia, Avui, Marges, Guia Del O Cio Gallery & Studio, May 1999, “New York Notebook,” Weidman
Selected Projects Media
2003	Fiber and Feminism, included in slide lecture by Deborah Kruger, Amherst, MA
2000	Serrahima Gallery Artists' Group , Barcelona, Spain
1998	Bloody Wimmin #3, The Rag by Graphic Divas & Text-Based Chicks: art reproduction
1995	Time Capsule, An Encyclopedia by Women Arists, published by Creative Time and SOS Int'l for the Bejing Conference on Women: art reproductions
1993	NBC TV Local News, Nov 18, “The Guns of   November,” artist shown shooting artwork
Collections
	Bryn Mawr College Special Art Study Collection Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC Libraries at Cornell, Univ of CA at Berkeley, Univ of MI at Ann Arbor, Temple Univ National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida & Washington, DC Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Private collections in the US, Canada, England, Spain

 

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