Marina Claire

Marina's work is a constant manipulation of the physical: metal, paint, ink, and bodies. Plato’s inquiries into the timeless perfection of imagined geometric shapes, and into how geometries might lie behind all nature, inspire her to make objects that (though necessarily imperfect because they will never have perfect straight edges, and must eventually erode) tease our minds toward the perfect. The objects she makes — always imperfectly embodying perfection — ask viewers to drift within that gap between the non-physical, conceptual realm and our tangible, sensory experience.

Marina is the recipient of the 2024 Etcheve Rising Star Fellowship and has exhibited work nationally and in Germany, including the Maryland Federation of Art, NRM Gallery, Sleep Center (New York, NY), Infinite Balcony (Brooklyn, NY), Sidestreet Arts, ADX, Past Lives, Blind Insect (Portland, OR), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Echo Park Art Gallery, bG Gallery, and TAG Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Philosophy from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College in New York. She studied sculpture with Katja Strunz on a scholarship to Universität der Künste Berlin. She is currently fabricating museum exhibition displays and m...

2023 FCAW Welding Certification (AWS D1.1-20) — Portland, OR
2015 BFA in Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design — New York, NY
2015 BA in Philosophy, Eugene Lang College — New York, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Spectrum Gestalt — bG Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA
2024 PARAMNESIA — Echo Park Art Gallery, 1729 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2024 Lost and Found — La Luz de Jesus, 4633 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2024 L.A. Open — TAG, 5458 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2024 Beauty of Stillness — Old Town Newhall Library, Santa Clarita, CA
2024 All Women — Light Space and Time Gallery, Online Exhibition
2024 Black, White, or Grey — Las Laguna Gallery, Online Exhibition
2023 Artist of the Autumn — UPWARD Gallery, online and print
2023 Apophenia — LAMAG, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2023 Art as Power — Blind Insect, 2841 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR
2023 228 — ADX, 417 SE 11th Ave. Portland, OR
2022 Art of Illumination — Past Lives, 2808 SE 9th Ave. Portland, OR
2022 The Print Matrix — Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th St. Portland, OR
2021 The Inked Image — Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th St. Portland, OR
2019 akrasia unbedingt: A Retrospective — 941 Willoughby Ave. Brooklyn, NY
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