Brazilian born artist lives and works near Chicago.

Maria Kunigk's materials and images move between abstraction and familiarity, expressing how unstable memory and perception can be, in a sense of instability that also affects how time is felt in the work; everything seems provisional. Materials are allowed to misbehave, to hold onto flaws and interruptions. Her work is in the space between quiet restraint and timid disorder, where form slips into a fragile meaning
As Kunigk puts it: “It’s in the breath between thinking and speaking, in that moment before meaning settles. That’s the quiet space that lets us feel rather than know. The silence always attracts me.”

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836

Travel the world but protect your roots whenever they can grow.

contact: cikunigk@gmail.com