About

Ana Maria Farina is a Brazilian artist now based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Farina’s work has been featured on New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, Highlands Current, I Like Your Work Podcast, Visionary Art Collective, and in venues around the world such as the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, Future Fair, the Wassaic Project, the Garrison Art Center, the Dorsky Museum, Paradice Palase, Abigail Ogilvy, Susan Eley Fine Art, Woman Made Gallery, Woodstock Museum, Subject Matter Art Gallery (London, UK), and Casa de Criadores (SP, Brazil). Farina attended Columbia University and SUNY New Paltz for her graduate studies and she is the 2021 recipient of the national CAA Fellowship in Visual Arts.

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I like to call myself “a sculptor of paintings in fiber” because while my work is not a painting or a sculpture per se, it has both qualities, it lives in-between.

Each loop of yarn is a dot, the start of everything. I instinctively choose colors and gestures that along with intricate, sculpted surfaces will later give birth to imagery. Agnès Varda said that if we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. I’m fascinated by the idea of what these landscapes look like. Growing up, my father always said that in order to turn a house into a home, you need to have rugs. Working in fibers allows me to bring this sense of comfort while I work on themes of psychoanalysis and our internal battles of constraintment, repression, and release. Besides, it is a nod to my ancestry of craftswomen and my latina heritage, an acknowledgment of the labor that still most often than not goes unseen. I do that through a process similar to automatic drawing, but using a tufting gun, hooks and needles. Painting, sculpture, and textiles intertwine in a practice that is focused on making.