Maria Laura Hendrix is a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist, currently living in Southern California. She earned her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2020, and her BA in Psychology from Cal State Northridge. She looks at identity through the materiality of paint by creating portraits that resemble her cultural reality. Her use of deconstruction in the form through fragmentation is an important element in her work, where she interrogates identity through the use of multiple figures fragmented within a picture plane. She deconstructs the image to re-imagine a new form, one that makes sense to how she perceives the world around her.
Education
2020
MFA, Painting, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Associates Degrees, Art History, Fine Art, Studio Art, Art and Humanities, Behavioral Sciences, Ventura College, CA
1998
BA in Psychology, California State University, Northridge, CA
Exhibitions
Solo
2022
Emergence, Blackboard Gallery Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo CA
2020
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hasta La Raiz / To The Root, Bolsky Gallery
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
Group
2021
“13th Annual Art About Agriculture” Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA
“The Next Big Thing” Blackboard Gallery, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2020
Seven Decades of Ventura College Art, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
83rd Santa Paula Society of the Arts, Annual Art and Photography Exhibit
Santa Paula, CA
2019
Bondage and Freedom, MFA Studios, Otis College, Culver City, CA
Mid Residency Graduate Show, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Embracing” DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
57 Carnegie International, University Night with Postcomodity, Pittsburg, PA
Annual Student Show, New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura, CA