Maureen Shea

Works in Brooklyn, NY

BIO

Maureen is a Brooklyn based painter/ interdisciplinary artist and architect. The deepest thread of connection among the different strands of her work is dealing with complexity and the task of sorting. Her practice approaches complexity from two directions: in painting, she works with her hands to document her surroundings, later expanding on these observations. In her interdisciplinary work, starting from ideas (such as social/political divisions) she makes physical structures which can offer insight by displaying and examining data .

Through painting, I investigate my surroundings, connecting my inner and outer experiences. Most of my larger scale paintings are plein air pieces that I work on both outdoors and in the studio, in a back and forth process. Looking for the painting’s associations and energy between sessions is an important part of my process, which sometimes leads far from the starting point, to narratives which are different from what might otherwise be imagined.