Maria Kreyn
Maria Kreyn’s paintings seem to glow from inside their surface, like luminous vortexes where reality and illusion are confused and entangled.
Explore the captivating world of Maria Kreyn, whose storm paintings blend the Romantic awe of nature with abstract geometry and elemental motifs. Her luminous art erases the boundary between the real and the imagined, inviting a contemplation that is both whimsical and profound.
With a background in mathematics, philosophy, neuroscience, and mythology, Kreyn creates atmospheric scenes rich in complexity and innovation.
Her paintings navigate the sublime and chaotic essence of nature, revealing its beauty and ferocity. Kreyn achieves a delicate equilibrium between the wild and the serene, reflecting on our bond with the environment and the impact of the Anthropocene. More than just visual experiences, her works are narratives of technical prowess and personal iconography, deeply engaging with themes of nature, reality, and our place within it.
Deriving her technical foundations from old masterworks, Kreyn re-frames these techniques and expands their pictorial vocabulary into a realm of stirring emotional narratives, unique personal histories, and surreal fictions. Kreyn's public works include a collection of 8 monumental paintings based on Shakespeare, commissioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, now on permanent display in the lobby of London's historic Theater Royal Drury Lane, open to the public daily. Maria Kreyn lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Kreyn's expansive canvases are meditations on nature, the body, and materiality.
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Maria Kreyn - Chronos
Chronos 15 Apr - 22 Jun 2024Maria Kreryn's painting show opening in Venice April 16 - June 22 at St George's Anglican Church, Venice, Italy.Read more -
Maria Kreyn
Lensing a Storm 7 - 16 Oct 2023Ministry of Nomads is delighted to present Lensing a Storm, a collection of new works by New York based painter Maria Kreyn.Read more