Maria Mosier is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the likeness and connectivity between space and body, infrastructure and organism. Working across painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and tattooing, Maria activates the body as a container, exposing its ability to hold, transport, and reiterate systems of life as both a projection and a reality.
The artist’s use of mediums is one of conglomeration and overlap. Her tattoos exist as an installation in the body, a sculpture of the skin, a performance of transferral. The recipient of this gesture not only enables the work to exist, but also becomes a vessel that carries it beyond the artist and the work’s initial spatial contexts.
Maria’s freehand designs are site-specific responses to the unique anatomical structure of each wearer. Tattoo sessions are held in her home: an invitation into her private life and surroundings. Here, skin and space both act as sacrificial containers to be invaded by the parties involved, offering parallels between the bodily and the architectural.
Canvases MARIA MOSIER, EVAN ENGEN, JEDIDIAH MARTINEZ, BEATRIX SHELTON.
This story was first published in print for Bias Cut 04: The Body Issue.