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Born in Colombia, New York-based artist Maria Berrio creates surreal mixed-media works that comment indirectly on matters relevant to the present, taking inspiration from folklore, mythology, and magical realist literature from South America.

 

Source: DMAC News, Jan Feb Mar Apr 2024, p. 10-11 


DimensionsFrame: 85 3/4 × 53 × 3 in. (217.8 × 134.6 × 7.6 cm)
Canvas: 82 3/4 × 50 in. (210.2 × 127 cm)
Accession Number 2023.30
Classificationscollage
ProvenanceArtist; (Victoria Miro Gallery, London); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from previous, 2023]
Act III Scene 3: El Viento Empanaba Espejos
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
White Table
Matt Phillips
1977
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Pale Gray Room
Matt Phillips
1977
Photo Credit: Robert Fogt Photography, Mendota Heights, MN
Blumenverkäuferin (Flower Seller)
Max Klinger
1911
Photo Credit: Michael Tropea, Chicago
Natascha IV
Franz Gertsch
1987-1988
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Petunias
Blanche Lazzell
1938
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Unkas springt herab um Cora zu retten (Uncas Leaps Down To Rescue Cora)
Max Slevogt
1909
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Caligo Butterfly, Wasp & Acenthacae, plate 60 from “Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam)”
After Maria Sybilla Merian
published in 1726 (3rd edition, 1771)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hard Core, from the portfolio "The New York Collection for Stockholm"
Walter De Maria
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Shikibu
José María Sicilia
1989
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Asebi
José María Sicilia
1989
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Joyeuse, from the series, "The Female Figure"
Karl Struss
1917
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
L'Annociation (The Annunciation), from the series "Le Cabinet de Crozat"
Giovanni Maria Morandi
Comte de Caylus
Nicolas Lesueur
1729-1742