Maria Epes
Maria Epes is a feminist artist working in the media of artists' books, installation, sculpture, printmaking, and works on paper.
Maria Epes
- Name
- Maria Epes
- Born
- 2 March 1950
- Birthplace
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Education
- Cornell University
- Field
- Art
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- printmaker · book designer
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Maria Epes is a feminist artist working in the media of artists' books, installation, sculpture, printmaking, and works on paper.
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Maria Epes (born 1950) is a book designer and printmaker, of American nationality. The book designer was born in Alexandria. Works are held at Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.
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• Name — Maria Epes • Born — 2 March 1950 • Birthplace — Alexandria, Virginia • Education — Cornell University • Notable Works — Biogender, Drawing Blood, End of the Line Design • Field — Art • Website — mariaepes.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Maria Epes has a BFA in printmaking from Cornell University and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Career
Career
Maria Epes's work has been exhibited and cataloged internationally at venues including Franklin Furnace, La Mama La Galleria, and ABC No Rio. A long time member and solo exhibiting artist of Ceres Gallery, a feminist art collective in New York City, she also showed with Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. She is represented in the Feminist Art Database, a curated selection of important feminist works in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has been reviewed in publications including The Village Voice, and Ms. Magazine, and she has been in television spots featuring her artwork, including NBC News for their series, "The Guns of November." She produced a Tête-bêche book, Wimmin X 1 = Past, Present, Future + Future Perfect: 4 Installations/Wimmin X 1 = Birthrite, Liferite, Deathrite + Rebirthrite: 4 Installations/2 B with an introduction by Arlene Raven.
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- 1.Resumé. Maria Epes.
- 2.Franklin Furnace Publications, The Concrete Flue: Volume VI, No.1: The Concrete Flue, http://franklinfurnace.org/research/publications/ff_publications.php
- 3.Maria Epes, Feminist Art Database, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/mariaepes.php
- 4."Waving Feminism Goodbye," by John Haber, http://www.haberarts.com/globalf.htm#role
- 5.Wimmin X 1 = Past, Present, Future + Future Perfect: 4 Installations/Wimmin X 1 = Birthrite, Liferite, Deathrite + Rebirthrite : 4 Installations/2 B, https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/isbn/9780963435002/page-1/
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