Maria Frati is a relief printmaker and oil painter based out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Maria studied Fine Art at Clark University in Worcester, MA, and earned a masters degree in Art Education from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, MD in 2012. Upon graduating, she taught in public schools including four in New York City, before making the switch to working full time as a studio artist.
Having grown up in the wilds of rural Maine, Maria’s work is impacted by these early experiences in nature. She creates large prints on a flatbed printmaking press; cutting, carving, and printing pieces of linoleum, layering colours and shapes that reference bio forms and organic processes. Most of her pieces are a blend of relief printmaking, reduction printmaking, and oil painting. They’re time intensive, experimental, and intuitive.
Maria hopes to continue exploring this blend of mediums and scaling up her work to create large, dynamic prints, and perhaps even create some public work projects in the future.
She has shown work in Portland, Maine, Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Seattle, and has also served as an artists in residence for the US National Park Foundation in 2015.
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