Marie Najera
Iconography, Images and icons with multiple meanings and feelings are layered together to create a sense of chaos and order. Within the heavily textured paintings, the viewer is allowed glimpses of objects, words and numbers. Secrets often lie just below the surface about love, lust and truths. Every object holds within in it a double meaning.
s e le c t e d e x h i b i t i o n s
2006 Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, AR
2005 Inside/Outside. (solo) David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2003 Word, Tres Gallery, San Diego, CA
2002 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
The Price Is Right 5, Back With a Vengeance, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2001 Patricia Carlisle Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
The New School San Diego, CA
200o Patricia Carlisle Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Patricia Carlisle Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
The Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA
1998 Gallery 542, San Diego, CA
1997 Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
Galleria Dos Damas, San Diego, CA
1996 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
Galleria Dos Damas, San Diego, CA
1995 Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
Galleria Dos Damas, San Diego, CA
s e l e c t e d p u b l i c a t i o n s
Arte Contemporary Magazine, Summer 2000
Collector's Guide "Mixed Media Painting," 2000
Focus/Santa Fe, October/November/December, 2000, July/August 1999
Raw Vision, Winter 2000
The Santa Fean Magazine, November, 2000, November 1999
Sante Fe Reporter, "Desiring Good Art," 2000
The Union Tribune, 'Words and Pictures," 1997
p u b l i c c o l l e c t i o n s
Brown Foreman Corporation, Louisville, KY
Pfizer, Memphis, TN
Moho Mine, La Jolla, CA
Hilton Gaslamp, San Diego, CA
Caner Research Center, Del Mar, CA
Opera Memphis, Memphis, TN
San Diego Aids Foundation, CA