JOURNAL ANJA MARAIS

Unnatural Nature [exhibition]

Curated by Jessica Acosta-Rubio
at Pinecrest Gardens

Still image from the video “Fruit Forager”

An Art Immersion Experience of video art, design and music!

Opening Reception
Saturday, November 10/2018
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Featuring
Video-Artists
Anja Marais/Amalia Caputo/Antonia Wright/Carola Bravo
Juan Carlos Zaldivar/Maritza Caneca
Artists and Designers
Fabio Designs/Flora and Form/Nina Surel/Rita Motta
Studio Mass/Paloma Teppa/Inverssa/Rafa Muci/Alex De Yavorsky/Artesanogroup
Musician
Julio Prato

With the Support of
INVERSSA / EPSON

Pinecrest Gardens
11000 Red Road, Pinecrest Fl 33156
Phone: 305.988.5089

On view from November 10/2018 through January 6/2019
Open Daily: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

www.hartvestproject.com

By Anja Marais|2019-06-24T21:53:43-04:00November 8th, 2018|

Eros Effect at Bridge Red [exhibition]

Curated by Jane Hart

Disintegration is Transformation / Transformation is Disintegration / 2018 / Decollage Mixed Media

November 4, 2018 through January 6, 2019

Sunday, November 4, 4-7pm opening reception

Sunday, January 6, noon-3pm closing reception

CALL: 3057901797 for an appointment on other days.

Bridge Red Studios/Project Space

12425 NE 13th Ave. #5, North Miami, FL 33161

The exhibition title draws upon a term coined by philosopher George Katsiaficas in his book “The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968,” the concept of the “eros effect” is a means of rescuing the revolutionary value of spontaneity, a way to stimulate a reevaluation of the unconscious and strengthen the will of popular movements to remain steadfast in their revulsion with war, inequality, and domination.

50 years ago in 1968, a surge in societal and personal awareness brought tremendous creativity as well as tumult, leading to sweeping changes both culturally and socially. This exhibition focuses upon how 50 years on, artists working in all media, are addressing aspects of these issues given our world today. The gallery space will become an activated, evocative environment that serves to be both thought-provoking and inspirational. – Jane Hart

By Anja Marais|2018-12-05T11:52:54-05:00November 2nd, 2018|

Santa Fe Art Institute Residency [summary]

Sante Fe Art Institute Art Studio: Mixed Media work – “The Three Architects”

I attended the thematic “Truth and Reconciliation” art residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute this September.

I participated in an exhilarating dialogue with international artists regarding this complicated theme.

Voices participating were from Colombia, Israel, Native American, South Africa, Taiwan. etc.

From my Notebook:

As artists, we do not always have the answers but we do
make the unconscious conscious.

To make art you first need to consume yourself.
Devouring your own flesh until personhood is gone.
Only then you become the other.
When you are the “other” you are not the artist
you are part of the collective heart.

Jung said that until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Antonin Artaud declared that art was the double of life, a
duplicate reality. “We have a spirit so made that
it spends its life looking for itself … In becoming
conscious, it duplicates itself.

Artists as witnesses are duplicates,
they contain both the subject and the object.
the self and the other.
the truth and the lies.

Santa Fe Art Institute Art Studio – Work in Progress

By Anja Marais|2018-12-04T09:38:45-05:00September 25th, 2018|

Blue Star Contemporary [Exhibition]

Soot on the grass, 2016, Photo-collage transfer on Found Fabric and burnt wood, 28 in x 82 in x 8in

The Crossing, 2015, Mixed Media on Found Table Cloth, Soil, and Found Objects, 73in x 115in x 20in

FROM UNDERFOOT: BREAKING THROUGH SURFACE AND GROUND

June 7 – September 9, 2018
Featuring artists Caroline Carlsmith, Jenny Day, Carrie Dickason, Leah Dyjak, Anja Marais, Marianne McGrath, and Ronen Raz

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

The works in this exhibition feature in some shape or form the ground as part of the subject and the artists focus. The surface of the earth is depicted as an active space, laden with tension. The artists featured reflect on the landscape and emphasize changes above and below gravel and grass, with subtle yet moving references to natural and manmade disasters. We can also find themes of how we reflect on the passage of time and mortality through the landscape, with references of resurrection, rejuvenation, erosion, and growth.

Location: Blue Star Contemporary

Address: 116 Bue Star, San Antonio, Texas
Museum Hours: TH FR 10am-8pm | SA SU 10am-6pm

By Anja Marais|2019-06-24T13:34:31-04:00June 6th, 2018|

Catalog for Bridge Red Exhibition [flip book]

By Anja Marais|2018-05-09T10:35:15-04:00May 9th, 2018|