Ana Maria Farina

Ana Maria Farina is a visual artist born and raised in the East Side of São Paulo, who now resides in New York City. Ana completed two master's degrees at Columbia University and the State University of New York in 2016 and 2021 respectively, where she received fellowships and two consecutive awards for research and creative projects. More recent exhibitions of her work include SPRING/BREAK Art Fair spaces, Wassaic Project, Garrison Art Center, Dorsky Museum, Paradice Palase, Susan Eley Fine Art, among others. Ana writes periodically for WHITEHOT Magazine and has had her work published in Highlands Current, Barzakh Magazine, the I Like Your Work platform, and in 2022 will be included in New American Paintings. In 2021, Ana received the College Art Association's national award in Visual Arts.

Her research is focused on the intersection of painting and textile art. She paints with a tufting gun-together with needles, hooks, and knots, and her textile paintings inhabit a mystical pictorial space that lies between abstraction and representation. The resulting images are hysterical-in the truest sense of the word. Liberated from its connotations, hysteria in this context is understood as a manifestation of the fiercely liberated unconscious. Ruptures are reborn as tapestries, inviting the observer into his own inner home.

Por: Ana Maria Farina