ARTIST PROFILE

Maria O' Sullivan

  • Ireland (b. 1990 in Cork)
  • Currently in Venice, Ireland.
  • Born in Cobh, Co Cork Ireland in 1990. Graduated with an Honours degree in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design in June 2014. Currently based in Venice where she was awarded a three-month residency with the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica

REPRESENTATION

  • Agora Gallery
  • 530 west
  • 25th street
  • New York, United States
  • NY 10001
  • tel. (+1) 212-226-4151
  • www.agora-gallery.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice engages with the constant development within the urban environment.  Often working on large scale to emphasize the overwhelming sense of space, I use many layers of different media and gestural mark-making to echo our densely complex and chaotic world.
The work is continually changing and evolving, generating a sense of energy that reflects our contemporary cities. Through my work, I aim to explore the relationships between built environments and the people and systems that inhabit them. I also look to convey the constantly changing and developing urban environment over time using many layers of different media and gestural marks to echo a sense of chaos and visual noise. 
My main interests are in constructivism, futurism, and contemporary and historical social networks. My interest in vast architecture and space often finds me exploring large cityscapes, transport systems, geometric grids, and urban planning maps before constructing my own abstract environment.