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Metro Maid
“Helpful and misunderstood, the new Roomba for the subterranean, the sub-urb, it cleans up so you don’t have to. Keeps us germ-free and it recycles too! Synthetic but friendly...”
Such is how the artist describes this version of his signature painted fabric artworks, or “bugs,” as he calls them. The brightly-colored, stitched-together wallworks symbolize one of Waters’s many moods or periods of his life through a series of graceful curves and abstract forms. Each also folds up, as they are designed to occupy a maximum amount of wall space with a minimum amount of storage.
Zuriel Waters constructs his art entirely from hand-ground acrylic paint on sewn fabric held together with small dress pins. These works retain traces of the time of year they’re made, the artist’s location, and his ever-changing state of mind. Referring to his abstractions as “bugs,” they also take on a figurative element, similar to pinned butterflies on display. As objects meant to uplift, these artworks emanate fleeting hope and beauty through their organic shapes and pleasing colors.
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③ Artist:
Zuriel Waters constructs his work entirely from hand-ground acrylic paint on sewn fabric held together with small dress pins. Waters makes each piece through an iterative process that retains traces of the time of year they were made, the artist’s location, and his ever-changing state of mind—a process that falls somewhere between fashion design and painting. He refers to these abstractions as “bugs,” allowing them to be seen figuratively, like pinned butterflies suspended in perpetual metamorphoses. As objects meant to uplift, these artworks emanate fleeting hope and beauty through their organic shapes and pleasing colors. Each also folds up, as they are designed to occupy a maximum amount of wall space with a minimum amount of storage.
Zuriel Waters was born in 1984 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA (2007) and an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI (2010).
Waters has recently mounted solo shows at Left Field Gallery in Los Osos, CA (2023), One River School in Westport, CT (2023), and My Pet Ram in New York City, NY (2022).
He has participated in group exhibitions, such as La Banda at Tappeto Volante in Brooklyn, NY (2023), Primary Colors at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton, NY (2023), and Reverse Reverb at Marvin Gardens in Brooklyn, NY (2023).
Waters' work has been featured in ArteFuse (2022) and MAAKE Magazine (2018).
“Helpful and misunderstood, the new Roomba for the subterranean, the sub-urb, it cleans up so you don’t have to. Keeps us germ-free and it recycles too! Synthetic but friendly...” Such is how the artist describes this version of his signature painted fabric artworks, or “bugs,” as he calls them. The brightly-colored, stitched-together wallworks symbolize one of Waters’s many moods or periods of his life through a series of graceful curves and abstract forms. Each also folds up, as they are designed to occupy a maximum amount of wall space with a minimum amount of storage.More
- Unframed
- Signed on verso
- Orders placed between December 22 and January 2 will ship by January 8, 2024.
