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 On Exhibition: Trenton History: People, Places, Events A celebration of 300 years of Trenton History  January - April 2019 at The 1719 William Trent House  15 Market St. Trenton, NJ
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"DECISION" Painting

Maria Mijares

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Other

Size: 32 W x 16 H x 0.5 D in

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Acrylic on board, DECISION has a black metal frame (23" x 39") with plexiglass. “...As I was certain there was no making a retreat without being discovered, and harassed on repassing the River, I was determined to push on at all Events.” George Washington Originally created as one of five color sketches proposed as a selected finalist for the Mercer County Courthouse exterior mural project with the intention to ‘make history fresh, and fresh new history.’ “DECISION” considers George Washington’s decision-making process to go ahead with the surprise attack in the determinative Battle of Trenton. Rumored that the plan was actually the idea of his doctor and friend, Hugh Mercer, whose life was lost the following week at the Battle of Princeton, George listened to counsel and made the final call. On a frigid December 25-26, 1776 George Washington stood on the banks of the Delaware River in midst of an unanticipated nor’easter to contemplate the risks and strategize the attacks that would be the turning point of the Revolutionary War. Facing a ten-mile march with tired and hungry troops, cannons and horses, while three hours behind schedule in extremely bad weather, Washington decides to “push on.” In that moment, he changed history.

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Painting:Acrylic on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:32 W x 16 H x 0.5 D in

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I am a contemporary realist painter working in New Jersey, known
 for conceptually ‘lived-out ‘ stories relayed in ‘psychedelic precision’ and public art. My work as a contemporary realist began with an unconscious intent to understand and hold onto personal experience. Born in NYC, I grew up back and forth between urban New Jersey and my ancestral Santander, Spain. Comfortably lost everywhere, I developed a heightened visual awareness where language may have failed me. Compelled to narrate, I paint a world I can live in. As a precisionist focused on an urban industrial world and simultaneously on my European experience, I could reconcile two very different cultures in paint. Felix Angel, in the catalog for the Coors National Exhibition, wrote, “…this granddaughter of Spanish immigrants paints with a desire to grasp reality in detail, as if this is the best way to define and become a part of it." I was awarded fellowships from Puffin Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Inc. and two from New Jersey State Council on the Arts. My 4 large-scale porcelain enamel on steel murals, “Between Manhattan and Meadowlands” are installed at Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System’s Bergenline Avenue Station in Union City, NJ. I will create a public art installation for NJ Transit Market Street Bus Station’s (Paterson) 2019-2020. I am currently preparing "DINERS—Then & Now" in porcelain enamel for the city of Worcester, MA wayfinder project. My work is in the collections of Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander, Spain, Newark Museum, Montclair Museum, Jersey City Museum, Morris Museum, Noyes Museum, Zimmerli Museum, NJ State Museum, the estate of John Cardinal O’Connor, New Brunswick City Hall. I have lectured at museums, schools, hospitals, and caregiver support groups, and was an E.B. Osborn Fellow at the Purnell School, Gladstone, NJ in 2015. I am featured in two books—a textbook “Fearless Creating” (Dr. Eric Maisel, 1995, G.P. Putnam’s Sons and “Artists Observed” Harvey Stein, 1986, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NYC.

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