About

Maria Fee’s work negotiates issues of locality, migration, multiformity, transcendence, and temporality. Moving from micro to macro scale, three-dimensional art pieces mediate what lies beyond. Layered paint processes, or the overlapping assembly of paper or canvas, folded, pierced, or cut, provide corridors and apertures, visual pathways granting access to inner sanctums or new vistas.

Despite the fragility of these farraginous forms, they are meant to be approachable places, mini shelters offering welcome. The bricolage method also refers to a mestizo mode--the mixing of media and forms to represent racial and cultural mixing. Hybridity as a playful method permits a concert of disparate elements to grant openness, largess, and fluid intimacy. Mestizo indicates the way art operates as a unifying method offering hospitality to diverse schemes.

Maria Fee is an artist with an M.F.A. in Painting, M.A. in Theology, and a Ph.D. in Theology and Culture. As adjunct professor, she assists seminarians in their theological explorations by way of creative methodologies. Maria's own studio practice investigates ideas of alienation and hospitality corresponding to the academic explorations expressed in the 2023 Fortress Press Publication Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates.