Bio
María Dusamp (b. 1993) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and curator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings and sculptures examine the loss and recovery of innocence, safety, and strength. Dusamp has an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (2020) and a BFA with Distinction and Honors in Communication Design at the Pratt Institute (2017). She has exhibited at The Clemente, Collar Works, Project for Empty Space, Wassaic Project, Winston Wächter Fine Art, La Mama Galleria, Artlot, O'Flaherty's, and a solo show at 24EBroadway. She has shown virtually in Deanna Evans Projects, Dear Artists, Tutu Gallery, SVA Galleries, and the Flatfile Gallery. Dusamp's works and writing have been published in Quiet Lunch, Artzealous, 24EBroadway, and Dear Artists. She has curated exhibitions at New York's Artist Equity Alliance and Starta Arta in New York City.
Artist Statement
Dusamp's abstract and figurative artworks examine the loss and recovery of innocence, safety, and strength. In her paintings, she presents voids and resurfacing layers of paint to hint at shared interpersonal and intergenerational strains. Her sculptures offer avatars of survival, such as dogs and children, illusions of softness, swirling imagery, and traces of the female body. Tactility, vulnerability, and a desire to touch stand center stage in her sculptures to depict a complex psyche and invading desires. Dusamp creates molds of her clay-based sculptures and casts them in multiples with different treatments and materials to hint at the ubiquity and singularity of strife. She also draws inspiration from her youth in Colombia, her migration to the United States, the stories of those she loves, and folk and literary characters like Ibsen's Nora, the Andean "Patasola," Shakespeare's Ophelia, and Cassandra from Greek mythology.
