Maria Makrai

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Maria Makrai is a Dublin based artist, who graduated in Visual Arts Practice from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. In the course of her on-going exploration of urban development and modern buildings, she references existing structures and surroundings, while creating her own building environment, where spaces often reflect the transient nature of composition, whether man made or natural. Her practice has become increasingly engaged in the investigation of site-specific locations, unfinished derelict buildings and residue left
in surroundings.

She pursues the language of abstraction in order to create complex geometric and rectangular patterns. Her drawings and paintings emphasize delicate lines distorted in their elongated and intriguing formations that vanish into a grainy map. These artworks can be viewed simultaneously, both as abstractions, and depictions of actual sites. She re-creates the original sequence, events and locations, as much as depict the elaborate structures of these characterful buildings. Her work includes collections in the Office of Public Works, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and private collections in Ireland.

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