Maria Porges
Biography
Maria Porges lives and works in the Bay Area and was a recipient of the SECA award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1992. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative spaces in the Bay Area and around the country.
Much of Porges work is an expression of inquiries into her self-described obsessions - the meaning of time, how we learn, how we are shaped by our experiences - by considering history. Using cast and fabricated elements made out of wax, metal, glass or wood in combination with text, Porges suggests what we have (or have not) learned from our past, both personal and political.
Gallery Exhibitions
Maria Porges, Bombast - Return to Dr. Strangelove - January 9 - February 8, 2003
Press
Maria Porges Retrospective, Bedford Gallery Download PDF (43 K)
Selected Works
Maria Porges Balancing Act #4: Time and Money, Money and Love, 2006 Beeswax, wood 25 1/2 x 12 x 10 inches
Maria Porges Bedtime Stories #2, 2002 Wax, wood and metal leaf 26 x 36 x 6 inches