Maria Spyraki

Maria Spyraki aka Spy_lab was born in Athens, Greece in 1977. She studied architecture in London but her love for arts won her heart.
She is a self-taught contemporary visual artist living and working in Athens, with a wide range of work in painting and sculpture. She believes that art is social, belongs to everyone, that’s why graffiti is her favorite expression. Spray as a medium gives her freedom, fluidity and the sense of endless. Her art could be considered diagrammatic and linear, while she always encapsulates symbols from our everyday life that create a background of meanings and a foreground of feelings.
Her sculptures are objects with multi level surfaces such as plexiglass, pvc, wood combined with resin symbols ( hearts, thunders, stars, fire extinguishers) in repetition, playing with transparency and shadows. Her favorite study is robots and how their qualities are integrated in the life of the contemporary man / woman.

Her first solo exhibition took place in Athens, 2017 and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. She has collaborated with the Municipality of Athens for the artistic intervention of the Historical Triangle of the Center of Athens while her paintings are exhibited at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.