About the Artist
MAIYA LEA HARTMAN is a Queer self-taught artist born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. Hartman’s interdisciplinary practice employs methods of drawing, painting, sculpture and movement as interwoven modalities for understanding, discovering, and uncovering memories and the way that we experience them. Through merging various materials, forms and approaches, they blur the boundaries of typical media-based categories, creating hybrids and new ways of understanding bodies and identity. By incorporating fabric, hair, and objects into large-scale paintings, they grant their figures a sense of viscerality, as if they’re engaging with the physical space of the real world. In addition to their studio practice, Maiya is the Director of Artist Development for Public Functionary’s emerging artist program, PF Studios. Maiya was one of eight artists in the inaugural cohort of this program in 2019 and is now working to expand the educational offerings extended to the 25 artists at PF Studios.
About the Artwork
UNGOVERNABLE
The Summer of 2020 in Minneapolis rings fresh in my mind and reverberates through my body til I pull consciousness into my feet, grounded in the present moment. I hear echoes of what was the loudest summer the city that raised me has seen in my lifetime. Echoes that sound of cries for liberation, only they belong to every single moment that has preceded the present. In 2020 I was introduced to Inhabit, a book and online portal outlining the criticality of establishing collective autonomy amidst global climate and economic catastrophe. There are multiple steps outlined with the final step being, become ungovernable. And what more radical an act in a world whose structures depend on our exhaustion, illness, and disconnection, than a future where we have collective autonomy. Where grounds are fertile and nourishment abundant. Where we continuously remain open to discovering new ways of living that support the collective.
Website + Socials
Website: https://maiyaleaartist.com/
Instagram: @maiyaleaart
About the Artist
MAIYA LEA HARTMAN is a Queer self-taught artist born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. Hartman’s interdisciplinary practice employs methods of drawing, painting, sculpture and movement as interwoven modalities for understanding, discovering, and uncovering memories and the way that we experience them. Through merging various materials, forms and approaches, they blur the boundaries of typical media-based categories, creating hybrids and new ways of understanding bodies and identity. By incorporating fabric, hair, and objects into large-scale paintings, they grant their figures a sense of viscerality, as if they’re engaging with the physical space of the real world. In addition to their studio practice, Maiya is the Director of Artist Development for Public Functionary’s emerging artist program, PF Studios. Maiya was one of eight artists in the inaugural cohort of this program in 2019 and is now working to expand the educational offerings extended to the 25 artists at PF Studios.
About the Artwork
UNGOVERNABLE
The Summer of 2020 in Minneapolis rings fresh in my mind and reverberates through my body til I pull consciousness into my feet, grounded in the present moment. I hear echoes of what was the loudest summer the city that raised me has seen in my lifetime. Echoes that sound of cries for liberation, only they belong to every single moment that has preceded the present. In 2020 I was introduced to Inhabit, a book and online portal outlining the criticality of establishing collective autonomy amidst global climate and economic catastrophe. There are multiple steps outlined with the final step being, become ungovernable. And what more radical an act in a world whose structures depend on our exhaustion, illness, and disconnection, than a future where we have collective autonomy. Where grounds are fertile and nourishment abundant. Where we continuously remain open to discovering new ways of living that support the collective.
Website + Socials
Website: https://maiyaleaartist.com/
Instagram: @maiyaleaart