Maia S Oprea

Painting is located in the center of my artistic interests, and through it I investigate concepts of time, memory, absence, waste, decay, violence, identity, subjectivity and vulnerability
The purpose behind my latest artwork (painting-graphics, collage, assemblage) is to explore the expressive properties of paint and other materials through physical and poetic processes, following the development of a personal dialogue in between thoughts and colors, emotions and memories, lines and gestures, hesitations and decisions. Desiring to pull the viewer from representation, I like to draw attention to the painting
process and to many painterly 'imperfections', which can be clearly visible in the works.
My paintings are often built up in layers, during long periods of time, through a process of recording and analysing natural forms, shapes and objects which I make myself, or my own manipulated photographs. These visual sources often resonate with my old drawings and sketches, which are in turn incorporated in the future paintings. The brushwork experiments in the studio and the repetitive structural forms found in my environment become a language of my work.
If I were to synthesize in a sole phrase what characterises my interventi...

2014: Haute École d'Art de Strasbourg, France - (semester Erasmus scholarship, Prof.Coordinators section La Fabrique: Patrick Lang, Gérard Starck )
2013-2015: Master of Fine Arts - strategies of creation in painting, National Arts University, Bucharest Romania
2012 B.F.A, Bucharest National Arts University , Bucharest Romania - Painting section
(Conf. Univ. Dr. Atodiresei Cezar, Asistent Univ. Rădvan Alexandru)
2010-2011 Ecole Superieure d'art et design de Grenoble-Valence, Grenoble, France (2 semesters Erasmus Scholarship, Prof. Coordinator in module Cosmetique et Politique: Abdelkader Damani, Slimane Rais)
2007- 2008 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA (painting)
2002-2006 Nicolae Tonitza Fine Arts High School, Bucharest, Romania

SOLO FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS

2019 - My Collection of Forms, AnnArt Gallery at Vienna Contemporary, Wien, Austria
2014 Cap Marina Gallery, Monastir, Tunisia
2013 Ruse Art Gallery, Waste-first stage, Ruse, Bulgaria
2005 Romanian Cultural Institute of London, "Through the Looking Glass”, London, UK
2005 Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2005 Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK
2005 Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, IT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN BUCHAREST

2018 Cultural Center Brâncovenești Palaces, Mogoșoaia, Galeria Foișor – NEST(s), curator Raluca Băloiu
2018 Annart Gallery – LOCUS NEMINIS II
2017 Seabam Gallery, Kube Musette – LOCUS NEMINIS
2016 Annart Gallery – STACKING
2014 Galeria Signum, AFTER ZĂERCS
2014 Orizont Gallery
2013 Metropolis Center, TRANS / FIGURATION
2013 U-ART Gallery, CADMIUM
2012 Melenia Art Gallery, DUST
2011 Orizont Gallery
2010 National Bucharest Opera House, Design Youself project
2010 Melenia Art Gallery
2009 Hard Rock Cafe Restaurant
2009 Leads center, Running in Circles
2008 Orizont Gallery
2007 Baku ...