Imperial Dream Painting

Galaxie Maria (b. Maria Delfino) is a Filipino visual artist who adopts various artistic styles and approaches to enhance, vehicle, or serve the intent of an idea in focus; with an interest on how it evolves during the process. Her subject matters are often presented as a vestige from past works or styles - portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. She appropriates these by off-setting the austerity and solemnity of the familiar, through injections of thoughtful humour and sarcasm, confrontations of survival, and unsettling displacement; all rooted from observations of modern day life and personal experiences. Galaxie is a Visual Arts graduate of Philippine High School For The Arts, and a Writing Major in BA Communication Arts at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos. She has participated in group shows in Brazil, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States. She was formerly a product designer for lifestyle brands, Quiksilver & Roxy Australia, and an art director with WPP media agency, GroupM Singapore. She is currently based in Manila, working as a full time artist focusing on oil painting, illustration, digital art, and typography.