Maria Stabio

7 November 2024

I was featured in CanvasRebel Magazine - click here to read the full article

5 October – 3 November 2024

I was not born alone
Opening Reception October 5, 5 – 8 pm
Transmitter - 1329 Willoughby Avenue, 2A, Brooklyn, NY 11237

EMILY DAVIDSON • JAMES PARKER FOLEY • MARIA STABIO • NATALE ADGNOT

Transmitter is excited to present “I was not born alone” a group exhibition exploring the creative impulse of duplication, twinship, and reflection. The artists highlighted in this show, Emily Davidson, James Parker Foley, Maria Stabio and Natale Adgnot, all share the motivation to intentionally make the same work twice, and through that gesture they explore the interplay between replication, nuance, variation and identity.

These twin-works operate as fully-fledged individual pieces, they are not diptychs, but they are more closely related than artworks born out of a shared series or body of work. The intentional act of repeating an artwork reflects a certain vision that explores deep-looking, perceptual refinement, and some constraint. However, it also offers the liberty to try the fabrication process again using the same recipe, to dig into the creative kernel that prompted the artwork to begin with. The outcomes are engaging and poetic, and allow us to sit with how visual echoing can both reinforce and alter meaning.

The incentive for each artist’s twin-making is, of course, unique to their interests. Maria Stabio has developed a particular lexicon of repeated marks and objects that offer a formation of identity via the language of symbolism. James Parker Foley’s drawings and paintings are set in an enduring coastal Maine landscape – where water and sky could be interchangeable – and the figures and objects are veiled in a narrative suggestive of constant unconscious ruminations. Natale Adgnot’s sculptures are grounded in a deep interest in faulty perception. The pieces exhibited are part of a larger project titled “Bird Brains” and operate as a visual glossary of logical fallacies that are so pervasive they have inspired sayings or metaphors, think “Ugly Ducklings,” “Crazy as a Loon,” “Rise Like a Phoenix.” Emily Davidson’s paintings feel animated, as if they are constantly shifting their physical perspective in order to more closely understand its subject. As a mother of twins, she notes that she’s constantly seeing double and her paintings operate as a space of play but also high attention – an area artists and mothers are particularly adept in operating.

All of these artists and works elicit questions on the nature of originality, the animal instinct of repetition, and how slight deviations in repeated formats can evoke different perceptual (and emotional) responses.

3 September – 5 October 2024

Half Double is my first NY solo show! See below for Install views and click here for the exhibition brochure.

18 May – 14 September, 2024

Tall Shadows in Short Order, our 2024 Summer Exhibition, features 30 artists throughout all seven floors of Maxon Mills, with a focus on large, site-specific installations. These include an interactive site for rest and exchange of plant knowledge by Tiffany Smith, a thirty-language broadcast of the US national anthem by Daniel Shieh, a mountain range made from maps of the US and Argentina by Luciana Abait, a narrative wheel about psychic children in Vietnam by Petra Szilagyi, and, on the top floor, an alternate version of Wassaic in miniature from Cate Pasquarelli's Museum of Embellished History.

Artists: Luciana Abait, Sungho Bae, Anthony Bowers, Phoenix Brown, Rachelle Bussieres, Alison Chen, Kate Conlon, Robin Crookall, Jennifer Dalton, Erin Diebboll, LIZN'BOW, Matthew Gilbert, Jodie Mim Goodnough, Grace Hager, Lexy Ho-Tai, Kirstin Lamb, Beth Livensperger, Haley Darya Parsa, Cate Pasquarelli, Katie Peck, Vickie Pierre, Daniel Shieh, Tiffany Smith, Maria Stabio, Petra Szilagyi, Scott Walker, akelyah imani wellington, Jesse Walton, Laura Williams

7 September – 2 October 2023

3.5 wonderful weeks at Wassaic Project were spent reconnecting and relishing time creating work and nothing else! I met amazing artists and had a handful of great studio visits too.

6 – 11September 2023

"Reflection: An Exploration of Self, Light, and Perception" Unveiled at this Year's SPRING/BREAK Art Show

New York, NY - This year's SPRING/BREAK Art Show proudly presents the debut of Reflection,' an ensemble art exhibition exploring identity, light, and perception.

"Reflection" is a collective art exhibition that delves into themes of identity, luminescence, and perception, inspired by the Spring/Break theme of "Black Mirror." Upon waking each day, we are met with reflections — be it in a mirror, a screen, or any reflective surface. This exhibition showcases the unique ways each artist interacts with this concept, offering nuanced takes on self-portraiture and painting.

These artists turn quotidian experiences of seeing oneself into moments of vulnerability, linking them to the passage of time, as observed in the fading sunlight reflecting off water. This shared subject matter ties together the diverse creative explorations of these artists—some through natural landscapes, others through portraiture.

The element of reflection is evident in the artists' landscapes, as it is in iconic works like Monet's water lily paintings. Colleen Blackard, for instance, captures the ephemeral quality of light diffused through nature. Meanwhile, Shannon's twin landscape pieces, bound together by a rope, evoke the idea of primal connection—suggesting perhaps a mother-child bond or the connection with our darker selves that we'd rather keep submerged.

In her piece "Outback Aphrodisiac," Emma Harper turns the gaze back upon the viewer, painting a self-portrait in which she points a gun towards those who look upon her. The work challenges the viewer to ponder their role in this visual exchange. As Oscar Wilde observed, the artist reveals more about themselves in a portrait than the subject does.

Natalie Ortiz’s works merge still life and portraiture, narrating stories largely focused on marginalized communities. Derived from her life experiences, her art exudes a profound emotional depth. Irene Feleo’s pieces, such as "I’ve Changed," show women in transformative scenarios—whether it's wearing a butterfly mask or submerged in water—captured in striking color contrasts and powerful brush strokes.

Amy MacKay's monochromatic paintings, like "Ghost" and "Miser’s Dream," although abstract, hint at the presence of a figure. These works feel like distilled portraits or shapes, focusing on form and brushwork. Similarly, Maria Stabio uses acrylics to craft layers of geometric shapes and colors that speak to the complexities of human identity. Georgia Hourdas, paints overlay techniques, using printed fabrics as backdrops upon which organic forms are painted.

This ensemble of female artists contributes to an ongoing dialogue about self, environment, and reflections, rendered through diverse painting techniques. Whether they choose to reveal or conceal aspects of themselves, each artist's unique identity shines through their work, from abstraction to more concrete representations. Echoing Wilde, the true subject of each piece is ultimately the artist themselves, reflected in choices ranging from brush strokes to color palettes.

Don't miss this chance to delve deeper into these compelling explorations of self, light, and perception. Join us at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show to experience the "Reflection" exhibition firsthand with Artists Colleen Blackard, Shannon Blannton, Rachel Borenstein, Irene Feleo, Emma Hapner, Georgia Hourdas, Amy MacKay, Natalie Ortiz, and Maria Stabio. This is a rare opportunity to connect with the art and the artists who challenge us to see the world, and ourselves, in new ways.

For more information on dates, tickets, and directions to the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, visit www.springbreakartshow.com. Immerse yourself in the creativity and dialogue that this unique group of female artists brings to the table. See you there!

The exhibition opens to the public on September 7th and runs until September 11th, located at 625 Madison Ave. We are located on the 11th floor of the building in booth #1126.

Contact: Nicole Basilone, Curator

7 August – 13 October 2023

Art Hap and The Yard Greenpoint are pleased to present, “Eclipse of Distance”, a group exhibition of artworks by Clement Oladipo, Debbi Kenote, Maria Stabio, Orli Swergold, and Matt Logsdon. This exhibition presents a selection of tri-state area artists who create works with bold explorations of color and material through decentralizing and compressing their subject matter.

The Yard Greenpoint: “Eclipse of Distance”    

Clement Oladipo, Debbi Kenote, Maria Stabio, Orli Swergold, Matt Logsdon
Curated by Art Hap's Morgan Everhart, Mel Reese, & Alex Feim

The Yard Greenpoint: 33 Nassau Street, Floor 2 Brooklyn, NY 11222
Monday, August 7th - Friday, October 13, 2023
Reception: Wednesday, September 20th 6pm-8:30pm

For information and appointments, contact mel@arthap.com

12 July – 18 August 2023

You're invited to the opening of this extraordinary show curated by Kristen Lorello! I'm honored to be included in this incredible cohort of artists.

Ann Agee, Emma Amos, Amy Brener, Brianna Rose Brooks, Judy Chicago, Theresa Daddezio, Florencia Escudero, Pixy Liao, Lucia Love, Judith Linhares, Anastasia Komar, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady, Tura Oliveira, Sarah Palmer, Mariah Robertson, Jackie Saccoccio, Katy Schimert, Erika Somogyi, Xin Song, Maria Stabio, Jessica Stoller

24 June – 30 July 2023

So excited to be included in this stunning Asian American lineup of artists! This will be a fantastic show.

Gathering
Tiger Strikes Asteroid - NY
1329 Willoughby Ave #2A, Brooklyn, NY 11237
June 24 – July 30
Opening Reception Saturday, June 24, 3 pm - 6 p
Curated by Cecile Chong and Sophia Ma

Artists include: Kate Bae, Mimi Bai, SiSi Chen, Vivian Chiu, Heejung Cho, Rachelle Dang, Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Caroline Garcia, Beatrice Glow, Kira Nam Greene, Gi Ginny Huo, Gyun Hur, Sara Jimenez, Melissa Joseph, Kyoung eun Kang, Evgenia Kim, Ae Yun Kim, Christina Yuna Ko, Alison Kuo, Julia Kwon, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Adelle Lin Yingzi, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, zavé martohardjono, Kristel Baldoz, J Dellecave & Andrew Suseno, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Lulu Meng, Tomo Mori, Natalia Nakazawa, Harley Ngai Grieco, Alix Paik, Maia Cruz Galileo, Risa Puno, Sa’dia Rehman, Naomi Kawanishi Reis, Jaye Rhee, Jiwon Rhie, Annesofie Sandal, Amy Lee Sanford, Pauline Shaw, Winnie Sidhardta Ambron, Maria Stabio, Jia Sung and Seldon Yuan.

6 – 26 June 2023

The gallery is delighted to present a two-artist exhibition with Xin Song and Maria Stabio.  This is the gallery's first time exhibiting works by the two women artists, who will display works in cut and hand-sewn fabric and acrylic on canvas paintings, respectively.  Both artists share an interest in layered shapes, patterns, and colors, as well as the exploration of cultural experience that is both personal and far-reaching.

Song's hand-sewn fabric compositions include rectangular cloth backings embellished by smaller cut pieces of textiles in various shapes that she arranges into patterns.  The artist is inspired by a range of decorative and quilting traditions, including those of China, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.  Cut fabrics from garments and textiles used by the women in her family since 1910 provide the backing of each work.  Song selects the smaller, overlaid shapes from textiles she finds in the United States, sometimes at shops in the NYC garment district where the artist keeps her studio.  While studying in art school in Beijing in the 1990s, the artist made frequent visits to the rural countryside, where she came into contact with Chinese folk artists using centuries-old traditional techniques of paper-cutting, crocheting, and quilting.  Becoming enamored of these popular traditions, she adapted them, together with her own expertise in paper-cutting, to her recent body of work in quilted fabric.  Within Song's practice is an interest in women's labor, the exploration of visual elements from her dreams, and the joining of material and art historical traditions of different cultures within one overall visual composition.

Stabio's paintings, informed by her experience of being Filipino American, include flat sections of colorful shapes layered into compositions that refer to the environment and culture of the Philippines.  Her technique involves brushing flat areas of acrylic within hand-drawn outlines and then spraying acrylic paint over several hand-cut stencils placed onto the surface of the canvas in multiple takes.  Repeating the process of layering stencils and paint, Stabio achieves a non-uniform surface, shadow effects, and fine dot patterns within crisp outlines and nods to aspects of printmaking in the process.  Her imagery is inspired by the tropical environment of the Philippines, where the artist frequently visits, including its volcanoes, caves, lush plants, and weather patterns such as monsoons.  Family traditions of sewing find a place in Stabio's paintings entitled, "Eye of the Needle," while her "Cave" works draw inspiration from a visit she made to the vast, natural system of caves of the Underground River in Palawan.  As Stabio notes of the visit,  "It yet again reminded me that a journey--in my case, a journey to connect with one's sense of self and identity--can often only be seen in sections.  The full picture emerges gradually through imagination, stitching all the images and memories together."

Xin Song was born in Beijing, China in 1970.  In 1994 Song graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, China.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York and has maintained a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts since 2010.  Her works have been exhibited at Space Gallery Association, Shanghai, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY, the Consulate General of France in New York, New York, NY, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, among many other venues.  Song has completed numerous public projects including the following permanent installations: MTA Arts for Transit, Bay Parkway Landmark Station, Brooklyn, NY (2010) and Percent for Art, Public Art for Public School Program, PS170K, Brooklyn, NY (2014).  She is the 2021 recipient of a NYFA City Artists Corps Grant and the 2021 recipient of an Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts North Fork Residency.

Maria Stabio was born in 1985 in San Francisco, CA in and lives and works between Barnesville, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York.  She received an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2012, and a BFA in Painting from Boston University in 2007.  Stabio's works have been exhibited at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Pen and Brush, New York, NY, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Louis B. James, New York, NY, among other venues.  She has completed numerous artist residencies, including a 2012 Artist in Residence Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, where she was a resident artist and adjunct faculty member for one year.  She will be an upcoming artist in residence at Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, in September 2023.

10 – 13 May 2023

I have two pieces in Future Fair, curated by Paradice Palace!

The Patron Parlor will bring to life an imagined living room of our ideal collector, with an installation that embodies the founders' bold and whimsical spirit and features artwork by an invited group of 15 members from our platform's digital network.

PARADICE PALASE is on a mission to democratize the art world through access and transparency - we’re making it easy and exciting to invest in emerging artists and buy art that brings you joy to live with everyday. So come on in! Meet and mingle, lounge awhile, and learn how to start collecting online with us!

The presentation features artwork by members Melanie Brewster, Ana Maria Farina, Ambrus Gero, Michael Hambouz, Jane Kang Lawrence, Alyssa McClenaghan, Caitlin McCormack, Mike McGuire, Marianna Peragallo, Lauren Carly Shaw, Mack Sikora, Maria Stabio, Oakley Tapola, Rebecca Forstater, and Charlotte Woolf.

18 January 2023

This article “The Woven History of Filipino American Artists” published in Hyperallergic and wonderfully written by Irene Lee, charts the work and lives of several Filipino American artists, listed below. It was an honor to be included!

NExSE (Northeast by Southeast Fil-Am artist Collective)
Mic Diño Boekelmann
Carlo Ricafort
Julio Jose Austria
Jeho Bitancor
Francis Estrada
Magdalena Arguelles
champoy
Maria Stabio
Eva Marie Solangon
Juvana Soliven

12 November 2022

Art Bath is an immersive performance salon that fosters artistic community, exploration, and exchange. Hosted at the historic Blue Building on E. 46th St, Art Bath presents an eclectic spectrum of artists in a raw and intimate environment. Part immersive concert and part art party, Art Bath offers fertile ground for forward-thinking artistic creation and experimentation.

Devon Teuscher Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theater
Jodi Melnick Bessie-winning choreographer
Spiderhorse World-champion beatboxing duo
Adam Tendler Lincoln Center Award-winning pianist
Mauro Refosco, Gustavo di Dalva, Davi Vieira Alumni of American Utopia with David Byrne
Scooter LaForge Painter, sculptor
Alison Clancy Songwriter, Met Opera Ballet soloist 
Mondo Morales Fashion designer
Marcela Avelar Mixed-media artist
Maria Stabio Painter

7 May 2022

NExSE has its third exhibition at NARS House on Govenor’s Island! On view through June 26.

Curated by Rashmi Viswanathan and Andrea Bell

Artists Include: Jojo Austria, Jeho Bitancor, Mic Boekelmann, Francis Estrada, Eva Marie Solangon, Maria Stabio

Conversations of home presents site-specific installations by six international artists of the Philippine diaspora who grapple with personal and political histories of colonialism and diasporic displacement, and their resonances with the Governors Islands’ layered pasts and present. They seek to have a conversation of home and alienation with and on an island that is also a palimpsest of cultural memories and movement.

Colonization was and is not a single event, nor is it a thing of the past. It is an ongoing process that changes and shifts with time and can take any number of forms. It can be waves of successive and differentiated encroachment, human and resource exploitation from afar, or even the use of local populations as surrogates for distanced ruling powers. It displaces populations in their own homes, and restructures our movements and migrations.

Governor’s Island continues to experience and be haunted by these different forms, as do the Philippine Islands. Historically connected by United States operations in World War II, the islands’ pasts and presents are in conversation, and tell us of the images and afterimages of colonialism. The artists of NExSE hope to start this conversation with the support of the NARS Foundation.

Maria Stabio employs layers- both literal and metaphoric - referring to the island’s history and its modern existence. The first involves spraying layers of acrylic paint over a sheer curtain with handmade stencils and pressed botanical matter from trees and native plants of the Northeast and Govenor’s Island placed on top. As paint migrates through the fibers and absorbs onto sheets of blank artist paper beneath, it manifests a ghost image of the stencil above. The work, like the island itself, is both a record and a palimpsest.

3 May 2022

Eight-Armed Sun Cross at Paradice Palase

May 3 - June 30, 2022

online show of work by members Kelly Boehmer, Jaynie Crimmins, Melissa Eder, Caitlin McCormack, Jessica Soininen-Eddis & Maria Stabio

This selection by co-director Kat Ryals considers an explosive moment of rebirth and renewal - a fresh existence emerging from the dead, the discarded, and the lowly on a continual feedback loop. The title of the exhibition references the Wheel of the Year - an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events and the midpoints between them. Featuring fiber-based works, wall sculpture, and paintings, the works range in size from 6x6 inches to 54x48 inches.

20 April 2022

Virtual Studio visit with Kat Ryals of Paradice Palase

Join me and Kat Ryals as we discuss the latest projects happening in my studio!

6 October 2021

NExSE (Northeast by Southeast) is a Filipino American artist collective which I’ve been a member of since early 2020. We are advancing visibility of Filipino-Americans in the arts. Our first institutional exhibition titled 300 Years in a Convent, 50 in Hollywood will take place at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts on October 6. The event will be accompanied by a talk with renowned curator Patrick Flores, professors Anne Cheng and Paul Nadal and the NExSE members.

Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

LOCATION:
Colab in the Lewis Arts Complex (Forum Level)

SPEAKER(S):
Patrick Flores, Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines
NExSE Art Collective
Paul Nadal (moderator), Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Anne Cheng (moderator), Professor of English

SPONSOR(S):
Program in American Studies, Program in Asian American Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, Lewis Center for the Arts

In Celebration of Filipino American History Month

Whether framed in terms of exile or diaspora, fleshed out by refugees or contract workers, spurred by a nomadic or cosmopolitan ethos, the migrant departs, leaves traces, and settles. The migrant misses home, wherever and however it is reckoned, but also forges new kinship and solidarities in what Foucault calls the “sudden vicinity of things.” Nine Filipino artists have decided to come together, to release themselves from the confines of their solitary studios and individual careers, from the comforts of their singular trajectories. (...)

(...) As it should be, and true to critical form, the NExSE (Northeast by Southeast) collective of artists marks its presence with a daring aspiration and ultimately a daunting project. ..They recognize “diversity” as a marker of plurality that defines a community or a constituency. This many-ness is “shared” and is productively reciprocal for those who partake of it.

— Patrick Flores

Schedule

Exhibition open 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m. - Exhibition Walk-through

5-6 p.m. - Artist Panel

With Patrick Flores, professor of art studies, and the artists of NExSE, moderated by Paul Nadal, assistant professor of English and American studies, and Anne Cheng, professor of English.

Program

Following a walk-through of the exhibition, Nadal will facilitate discussion between curator and professor Patrick Flores of the University of the Philippines and the NExSE (Northeast by Southeast) Artist Collective, a collaboration of Filipino-American artists, including Julio Austria, Jeho Bitancor, Mic Diño Boekelmann, Francis Estrada, Ben Iluzada, Ged Merino, Eva Marie Solangon, Maria Stabio.

This exhibition is the result of collaborative engagement between artists in the collective and Patrick Flores’ essay “Movement.” Panelists will discuss the works of the individual artists, the commonalities they share, and the reckoning of U.S. colonial history in this particular contemporary moment.

4 October 2021

My piece Brownout 9 will be on view in “Apparitions” at Paradice Palase

25 September 2021

I’ll have a piece in Studio Jamz III, curated by Jeff Fichera, Fernando Pintado and Peter Schenck.

7 November 2020

My piece Grab has been included in Paradice Palase’s member exhibition titled “Primordial Soup”

including work by

Anais Öst, Cameron Ledy, Cynthia Reynolds, Deborah Yasinsky, Erin ONeill, Gabriella Mazza, Grant Stoops, Irina Rodnikoff, Julie K. Gray, Maria Liebana, Maria Stabio, Maxwell Abeles, Melissa Eder, Milk and Honey, Pamela Casper, Seren Morey, Sharilyn Neidhardt, Shemuel Phillip-Peters, Stascia Lynne, Sunny Chapman

co-curated by member Cameron Ledy

From the press release:

The works in this exhibition connect back to the core - the body, the universe, the natural world. There is a celebration of life, of the goodness of Earth. Femme icons reign, flora and aqua fauna bloom and spin, and all the while we are reminded of the strange, euphoric, and psychedelic.

READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE

on view: 11/07 - 11/21, 1260 Broadway, BK

2 August 2020

Four pieces of mine were “released” under AIR in Space’s Instagram virtual record label (for painting!). For purchase details and images, please visit their Instagram profile.

15 July 2020

My work has been included in Flat Rate Contemporary’s 6th Exhibition! Please click on the image below to purchase work. Each artist’s work is 12 x 9 inches or less and is $150, shipping included.

22 June 2020

Paradice Palase has created their own line of shirts, face coverings, hats, Koozies, and artist branded apparel called Made in Paradice. A great place to find something truly special and unique. This tee has just been released featuring one of my pieces from 2019 titled "Call Center" referring to the abundance of call center jobs in the Philippines. Please check it out!

Shirt is $49.44 and comes in sizes Small - 2XL.

"This direct-to-garment printed shirt from PP member Maria Stabio features one of her paintings made with sprayed acrylic and handmade stencils titled “Call Center”, inspired by her trips to visit family in the Philippines. Tee is available in heather grey for a washed, vintage look."

24 June 2020

I’ve been invited as the inaugural guest of The Hustle Habit, a conversation series with art world movers + shakers!

Please make sure to check out the post-show breakdown here. And consider becoming a member of Paradice Palase!!

25 May 2020

My work has been included in “The World’s What You’re Wanting to See”, an online exhibition with Temp.Img exclusively on Instagram. Exhibiting with artists Erika Somogyi and Theresa Daddezio. To purchase, please DM Temp.Img directly.

19 May 2020

I have a limited amount of works on paper available for $30 each through World Series SD, exclusively on Instagram. Some pieces still remain, DM them for more information.

31 January 2020

TurningArt has posted an interview with me as a featured artist on their blog. Click here to read the full interview.

4 November 2019

I’ll have a solo exhibition of my work at The Study Hotel in Philadelphia, PA

20 September 2019

I’ll be exhibiting at Bushwick Open Studios and also the New York Art Book Fair with Kayrock Screenprinting.

5 August 2019

I will be attending the ChaNorth Summer Residency in August 2019. Looking forward to spending this time creating many new pieces!

19 May 2019

My work has been included in the group exhibition Every Woman Biennial (formerly the Whitney Houston Biennial). Exhibition is on view in New York from May 19-29.

8 May 2019

I have a solo exhibition at the Tamaqua Community Art Center in Tamaqua, PA near my schoolhouse studio in rural PA. Opening is May 8 from 6 - 8 pm.

29 April 2019

My work has been included in the group exhibition Taglish: The First Picture of You, 1990. It  will run from April 22 to May 3, 2019 at The Philippine Center New York, 556 5th Ave, New York, NY 10036. The opening reception will be Friday April 26 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. 

5 March 2019

Kayrock Screenprinting brought my print to their booth at Spring Break Art Show. The print was made in collaboration with Kayrock as part of their Freshprint Series.

18 January 2019

My piece “Brownout 7” has been included in the online exhibition Salad Days. Curated by Kate Mothes of Young Space.

5 November 2018

I’ve been accepted to the Filipino American Artist Directory:

Filipino American Artist Directory is a participatory artist project by St. Louis-based artist Janna Añonuevo Langholz to connect and make visible the broad community of visual artists of Filipino heritage living and working in and between the United States and the Philippines. Through a geographic survey of creative work being produced in the scope of US empire, it aims to turn history back on itself in the retelling of Filipino American experience as told by Filipino American artists and be a catalyst for radical change in the art world.

The project is based in St. Louis at the former site of the Philippine Village at the 1904 World’s Fair; a 40-acre exhibition of 1,200 Filipinos that largely (mis)shaped American perception of the Philippines shortly after it became a US territory. The directory reclaims the site and addresses its history by compiling a list of 1,200 artists actively exhibiting their work between the United States and the Philippines, as opposed to being exhibited. The project was founded in 2015, first inspired by the book The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance by Sarita Echavez See.

Read our collective manifesto.

The directory has exhibited at Flood Plain in St. Louis and participated in the Filipino American International Book Festival in San Francisco, Pilipinx American Library Artist Retreat at Asian Art Museum, Guerrilla Alliance Night Market in St. Louis, the St. Louis Small Press Expo, and the Chicago Art Book Fair. It has been featured on All The Art, Inquirer.net, the Bad At Sports podcast, World Literature Today, and The FilAm. The directory publication is in the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and is a member of Common Field.

8 November 2018

I'll be participating in The Other Art Fair Brooklyn from November 8 - 11.

5 October 2018

My work has been selected for Fjord’s 5th Open Call exhibition titled Fever Dream. These two pieces will be on view until the extended exhibition date of November 17. Opening reception is October 11 from 6-9 PM.

25 August 2018

My paintings have been profiled on Artspace's email announcement. Click the image below to read the entire email.

8 November 2017
Myself and Sonya Derman have been invited to speak about the nature of our collaborative project, 2MF, for an undergraduate Senior Thesis class at Columbia University

27 August 2017
Myself and Sonya Derman are leading a workshop called Daughter Intensives as part of the exhibition The Soothing Center at Trestle Projects in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Curated by Jesse Firestone.

We invite you to join us in an afternoon of gentle diagnostic exercises and psycho-spiritual healing. Navigating the sticky interactions between self and community-care, we will explore both the celebratory culture and the hidden ideologies of different survival systems. Participants will have the opportunity to christen our bespoke questionnaires and worksheets, breaking into small groups to discuss their findings. We encourage you to re-parent your inner child in this conversational experience featuring soothing snacks, meditative sound, and curative visuals.

29 June 2017
My painting "I Voted (v2)" will be exhibited in "Broad Stripes and Bright Stars" at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT

This show is inspired by 60+ years of artists, from Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Kruger, Nam June Paik to Dred Scott, David Hammons and Sarah Rahbar, transforming, responding, re-appropriating the American flag as an iconic graphic symbol and potent political message. We admire numerous group exhibits on the American Flag; the “People’s Flag Show,” Judson Memorial Church in NYC in 1970, “Old Glory” at the Phoenix Museum in 1996, and “For Whom it Stands” at the Lewis Museum in Baltimore in 2014 as well as many more recent gallery and pop up shows around the country.

The Broad Stripes and Bright Stars exhibit at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art highlights both the indelible graphic power of the American flag and its symbolic use in engagement, resistance and resilience. It includes a wide range of practices and perspectives from artists, both local and from around the country and beyond. 

Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Opening Reception June 29, 6-8 pm
On View June 29 - August 13
Curated by Aicha Woods and Dave Coon

19 March 2017
I'll be participating in this year's Whitney Houston Biennial

The 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial: Greatest Love of All comes as a response to the awakening representation of women artists in major museums and galleries. To highlight female artists in New York this season, curator and artist Christine Finley will host female artists from a varied range of geographic and cultural backgrounds, disciplines, methodologies, and generations. The aim of bringing together so many creative voices is to sing a collective song that celebrates the contributions of pioneering female artists and marks a moment in our communal trajectory. In this newest incarnation, Finley is asking each artist to select a female pioneer who inspires them to accompany their work of art, thereby expanding the show through generations of inspiring women who came before them.

“The Whitney Houston Biennial is a feast for the eyes and a celebration of female voices.” Artist and curator C. Finley

The show’s title not only playfully addresses the traditional (and concurrent) exhibit held at the Whitney Museum, but also honors a strong and brilliant lady, five years since her untimely passing.

chashama at XOCO 325 West Broadway, New York, NY
Opening Reception March 19th, 4-8pm
On View March 20th -29th 12-8pm

20 February 2016
Our latest episode with Nate Heiges is now available

16 December 2017
I'll be showing a work on paper in the exhibition Stone Soup Nasty at Orgy Park:

Sone Soup Nasty
Opening December 16th 2016
December 16 - January 16
created by Katherine Aungier, Jennifer Lee, Zuriel Waters and Steven Mykietyn

Look inside the cauldron- it shakes, boils over, alluring broths wafting of sweat. Super packed with paintings, this soup’s pungent odor will have all the neighbors asking. Great new powers demand a sacrifice, art pieces are stirred up into a boiling soup, a creative new association, a STONE SOUP NASTY. So your split jeans, spliced dreams and combined ingredients create a strange mysterious flavor. Bring your stones for this soup of touching, caressing and making. This marker of something coming from somewhere spontaneously in which we exchange spells; in a moment recognised in its new owner’s home for the test of time. Emerging from this experience, bolder and more confident spells- liberated by setting free the arts we have created. Cooks all sharing together these small works, these small stones.

Liz Ainslie
Andrea Arrubla
Katherine Aungier
Rory Baron
Joshua Bienko
Tess Bilhartz
Kate M. Blomquist
Lauren Collings Schwarz
Corydon Cowansage
Nicholas Cueva
Julie Curtiss
Emily Davidson
Sonya Derman
Rachel Fainter
Elise Ferguson
Angelina Gualdoni
Yuhi Hasegawa
Clinton King
Jenny Lee
Stuart Lorimer
Ioana Manolache
Anthony Miler
Patrick Mohundro
Dominic Musa
Steve Mykietyn
Dan Oglander
Maria Stabio
Adam Sipe
Tracy Thomason
Charles Tisa
Zuriel Waters
Lindsay Wraga

16 November 2016
I'll be doing a presentation with Sonya Derman at Columbia University on our artist project 2MF.

17 October 2016
Our latest episode with Eric Ramos Guerrero is now available.

31 July 2016
Myself and Sonya Derman will be holding a conversation on our collaborative project 2MF and its relationship to our object making practices for the exhibition Tandem at (harbor), curated by Steven Mykietyn.

Tandem
July 10th – July 31st
Opening July 10th- 6- 10 pm. 

Jaimie Henthorn & Misael Soto
Joey Frank & Daniel Kent
Sister Gallery
Soda_Jerk
Sonya Derman & Maria Stabio (2MF)
Sorry Archive
Venske & Spänle

Curated by Steven Mykietyn

Regina Rex and (harbor) pedal on the same proverbial bike at their Madison street space. In the spirit of these two galleries operating together, Tandem presents seven two person artistic collaborations that each operate as combined voices. Sister Gallery curates artists in a series of solo shows in a Bushwick neighborhood window that can be seen from the street. Run by Jenny Lee and Zuriel Waters, Sister Gallery will occupy a window in (harbor) featuring work by Per Billgren. Sonya Derman and Maria Stabio of 2MF host monthly meetings with selected artists to talk on subjects related to their artistic practice, this time they have been asked to give a talk akin to their practise during the course of the show. Sorry Archive, the alter ego for Claire Mirocha and Vanessa Thill, have teamed up with Siebren Versteeg to invite 81 artists to replace the card icons in the 1990s game SET. The Sorry SET has been printed and will be available to play with its 81 new and sometimes perplexing images during the show. Jaimie Henthorn and Misael Soto will present a performative work that involve bodies in dialogue with their setting and architecture. Often subtle, the performers move in and out of context with surroundings and objects, using action based tasks that blur the line between acting and non-acting.

Soda_Jerk create videos from pre-existing films and digital material. They pull out characters from cinema and mash them into new narratives, using rotoscoping techniques. The new stories they create, often inspired by the attitude of Sun Ra and William S. Burroughs, take on a magical journey involving humor while challenging ideas of copyright for video/film. Joey Frank and Daniel Kent make objects and drawings with the aid of a laser cutter, slicing out shapes and wacky doodles from acrylic plexiglass, they insert themselves into disguises of the real world, such as mini drawings inside the face plates for electrical outlets. Venske & Spänle hand carve marble from northern Italy into blobby marshmallow like forms that appear to interact with banal objects like 7-11 take out containers and milk crates. The effect of this transformation is uncanny and humorous, raising the commonplace into something more supernatural. Cast from the spell of dynamic duos, Tandem provides a glimpse into the workings of two person collaborations.

23 July 2016
I will be sharing a previous artwork related to a (somewhat) shameful experience at 2MF's summer event and party at Orgy Park, along with 10 other artists

2MF presents an evening of regret, “bad art”, hindsight, and artistic doubt. Participating artists and thinkers will select and share a piece that was once a source of pride and joy, but now a marker of previous identity or discarded artistic/intellectual ideas. 

Ana Božičević
Deric Carner
Sarah Chacich
Sonya Derman
Elizabeth Ferry
Nate Heiges
Citron Kelly
Kristen Jensen
Julian A. Jimarez Howard
Maria Stabio

18 July 2016
Our latest episode on Clocktower Radio with Kaitlin McDonough is now available.

13 June 2016
Our latest 2MF episode on Clocktower Radio with Kerry Downey is now available.

16 May 2016
Our latest 2MF episode on Clocktower Radio with Ioana Manolache is now available.

01 May 2016
I am an artist-in-residence at The Rensing Center until May 29th.

11 April 2016
Our latest 2MF episode with Amy Beecher is now available.

04 April 04 2016
I have been invited by my former professor Dana Clancy along with painters Kaitlin McDonough and Sarah R. Pater to give a short talk on my work at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, my alma mater. 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 500, 12:30 pm.

01 April 2016
Broad Strokes is on view at Pen and Brush (29 East 22nd Street New York, NY 10010) from April 1 until June 5. Installation views of my work below:

05 March 2016
Artnet news posted this article about Broad Strokes, an upcoming group exhibition at Pen and Brush that I'll have 7 paintings in. Opens April 1.

14 March 2016
Our latest episode of 2MF with Andrea Arrubla is now available.

08 February 2016
Two of my pieces have been accepted for publication in Issue 29, Sinigang for the Soul: Conversations on Mental Healthin Maganda Magazine, the longest running Filipino-American literary arts publication in the nation. The issue will be released in Spring 2016.

01 February 2016
Our second episode of 2MF with Bethany Ides is now available.

This episode of 2MF features artist and writer Bethany Ides. Following an off-site meeting with 2MF hosts at Sunview Luncheonette, Ides steps in the studio to discuss operas and soap operas, Mr. Rogers, intramurality and spectatorship, teaching, and the joy of exceeding reasonable expectations.

All music in this episode is by Bethany Ides

07 December 2015
The first episode of 2MF is now available on Clocktower.org.

Joshua Smith is our first guest artist. He is a regularly exhibiting artist whose work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in recent years at Essex Flowers (NY), SOUTHFIRST (NY), Shoot the Lobster (NY), West Street (NY), Art Production Fund (NY) and John Connelly Presents (NY). He is a cofounder of Essex Flowers, a collectively run art gallery in downtown New York. 

We discuss his personal journey as an artist living in NY for the past ten years. Along the way: art & morality, Lee Lozano, artist organizing, Essex Flowers, NADA, Shepard Fairey, & appreciation for Tracy Emin.

ABOUT 2MF:

2MF is run by Sonya Derman and Maria Stabio.
2MF is determined to promote pro-emotive and anti-academic conversation among artists living dis/contentedly in the un/ranked spaces in New York City.
2MF is a hybridized kind of group: part non-sequitur discussion series, and part group therapy. 
2MF is a project in two parts. 

1) Nomadic in-person meetings open to the public, traveling across spaces in New York City, facilitated by guest artists.
Centering around "content" relevant to the facilitating artist, these meetings are partially structured and partially improvised. We draw from the felt experience coinciding with a text, and its' messy intersections with the world-as-lived.

2) The second is a radio show, hosted by Clocktower Radio at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 
The program features meandering conversations with 2MF's guest artists, reflecting and drawing from in-person meetings.

23 November 2015
I am currently an artist in residence at the Hinge Arts Program at Springboard for the Arts in Fergus Falls, MN. This year's selected residents are working in the circle of the now defunct local state hospital, also known as the Kirkbride Building. The state hospital admitted and treated patients with various mental illnesses and those struggling with addiction. It opened in 1890 and closed in 2007. It is no longer open to the public. As an artist in residence, I have the privilege of being allowed to visit and document the massive interior which exists partly in its original state and also shows several stages of modernization from the 1960s-2000's. Living nearby at the old nurses quarter's (now renovated into apartments), I see the hospital from my windows and am reminded daily of how the specter of mental health looms large in the public consciousness. Most recently, mental illness has been cited as the root cause of acts of terrorism, including several recent mass shootings within the US in the past year. The Kirkbride building suffers a similar stigma. It is an integral part of the town and the state's history, but that same history also carries the stigma of how mental illness has been misunderstood in our culture. While the town decides the future of the building, it remains undisturbed, but it cannot be ignored.

27 August 2015
I am opening my studio to the public as part of a Site Visit, organized by Site95. Participating artists include Nathan Catlin, Matthew Fischer, Alexandra Lerman, Miryam Prodanovic, Jordan Rathus, Brie Ruais, Maria Stabio, Elena Soterakis and Lea Cetera. @ Trackside Studios, 219 36th Street, 4th floor, Brooklyn, New York, 6-10pm

8 July 2015
I will be performing at Essex Flowers on August 23rd, 2015, 5-8 PM

Anxiously Attached: An Evening of Performances
An evening of performances rated by Sonya Derman and Maria Stabio

Jonathan VanDyke: o ­Holed Charley, 14, Walnut wood, cast rubber, and pigmented urethane in dripping sequence, 42.5 inches high x 33.5 inches wide x 4.25 inches deep.

Katie Vida: u May Not Be an Oil Painting, But You're A Fascinating Monster

Laura Miller: netary Realism
collaboration with Daniela Di Donato

Maria Stabio: Artist Talk

Sonya Derman: ses

Joshua Abelow: od Mornin and other texts by Joshua Abelow Performed by Jamian Juliano-­Villani and Brian Belott

PACKET, bi­weekly magazine printed in Brooklyn, has published a special section which accompanies Anxiously Attached. Copies of CKET re available for purchase throughout the event.

9 June 2015
I have recently been accepted to two artist residencies: Hinge Arts Residency Program in Fergus Falls, MN, and The Rensing Center in Pickens, SC. I will be attending both this coming winter and spring of 2016, respectively.

3 April 2015
I have co-curated an exhibition called Stirring Still with Ioana Manolache. 
Please click here for the press release.

Stirring Still opens Friday April 3, 5-7 pm

On View April 3 - April 29
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University
310 Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York NY 10027
Hours Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm 212-854-7641

Samuel T. Adams / Gina Beavers / Amy Bennett / Matthew Buckingham / Jessica Dickinson / Lois Dodd / Josephine Halvorson / Corin Hewitt / Elizabeth Jaeger / Claudio Nolasco / John Walker

16 December 2014
I have organized a group exhibition with Brie Ruais at Torrance Shipman Gallery. Details below:

Sisrahtac opens Tuesday December 16, 7 PM

December 16 - January 16, 2015
Opening: Tuesday, December 16, 7-9pm 219 36th St, 4th Floor in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Gregory Amenoff • Sonya Derman • Amanda Friedman • Nora Griffin • Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner • Haley Hughes • Jon Kessler • Jenni Knight • Reuben Lorch-Miller • Nicole Maloof • Robbie McDonald • Kaitlin McDonough • Sophy Naess • Sam Payne • Brie Ruais • Carolyn Salas • Maria Stabio • Kendra Sullivan • Katie Vida

26 April 2014
I am participating in Industry City Open Studios on Saturday, April 26th in collaboration with Torrance Shipman Gallery. Address is 219 36th St, 4th Floor. 11am-6pm. 

7 March - 4 April 2014
My painting Doha Flatware Series #1 is on view at The Last Brucennial. 837 Washington Street, NYC. Open Wednesday - Sunday 12-6 PM

22 January 2014
I'm teaching Painting 1 at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Spring 2014 Semester.

19 March 2014
Onfair Young Collectors will be using an image from my Niches/Van Dyke Series for their upcoming event at ArtDubai. 

13 January 2014
I've curated a show at Torrance Shipman titled Line Up. Artists include Ben Hall, Salma Hassaan, Montana & Amelie Ray, Katie Vida, and m.stabio. 

22 September 2013
Cenotaph at the PS 1 Printed Matter Book Fair

20 August 2013
Postcard in collaboration with Montana Ray for her reading at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY

2 August 2013
I'm in a show at Louis B James in NYC's Lower East Side, opening August 2nd:
Diff'rent Strokes-Small Paintings. Runs until August 29.

18 July 2013
Montana Ray and myself drop off Cenotaph at Mellow Pages Library in Brooklyn, NY