Mariah Guevin is a multimedia artist, writer, educator, and advocate. Her artwork explores the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, movement and stillness, and the means by which we express our identities and embodiment.

WORKS ON PAPER

Using ink, crayon, water color, and pastel, these works seek to express the pains and pleasures of embodiment. Some grapple with death and dying, others with memory, childhood, and the role of a caretaker. They niether seek to shock nor to attend to the healing of the viewer, rather they use banal and pedestrian images to distort perspective and loosen the edges of body and object.

PAINTINGS

“Other People’s Paintings” is a series of works on found and abandoned canvas. Beneath each abstraction was a work— in a variety fo mediums—that was thrown away, left on the side of the road, or discarded after a yard sale. Rather than priming each piece with a singular color, these works use aspects of the original paintings’ shapes, colors, and textures to recontextualize the material into largescale, bold swathes of movement.