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 redeems disparate elements granting 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 with their theological investigations via creative praxis. Maria's own studio practice explores ideas of alienation, and hospitality, which corresponds to her theological explorations expressed in the 2023 Fortress Press Publication Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates.