About Mariana 

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,and live there with my family until I got married and we started travelling with my husband because of his job we lived in different cities including Santiago del Estero (Argentina), Fray Bentos (Uruguay), Seattle (USA), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Santiago (Chile) and now Vancouver (Canada).

I have studied fine arts at the P. Pueyrredon School and I showed my work in different galleries.I worked at the Cultural Center of Recoleta in Buenos Aires, at the Seattle Art Museum as a docent and I taught art in my studio.

My landscapes are focused on the contrasts of the water, the floods, the earth, and the droughts. I also show how people live with difficult conditions. I worked as a volunteer with a non profit organization in the North of Argentina with native people who never left their homes, and they do not have electricity or running water, some of them need to walk one mile or more to get their water supply. There we taught crafts, like wood working and weaving and art for kids, while we were learning how their culture is. In my paintings I want to show their homes without doors but welcoming anybody who would think of them or help them in anyway.

The format of my paintings wants to describe how hard it is for them to grow and to expand their limits; without any possibilities to change. Their solitude keeps them away of the reality of a fast world changing all the time, but they are becoming a great treasure ready to be found. The water series are about the floods in very rich fields at the pampas where the landscape drowns in its own nature, and the beauty of the water becomes dangerous. On the other hand the figures I paint are both fragile and strong. They are full of color but they are disintegrating slowly in their drips, trapped in an instant paradoxically in motion and transparencies.

On the contrary, the old barns are hiding in nature, texture and color inviting you to finish the story they are telling.

I become a mom and now kids rule my life, in the series of paintings called "Chicos” (children) the energy and vibrant colors are inspired on them. In their motion, their emotions that are always changing, like art and life itself.

I have also explored in my "Peek-ing"series, the rare moments of quitude, exhibited by children just before they are ready to pounce into action. I find irony in those moments.

My art has always been a grounding place throughout all of our blobal moves!!