5 Artists on Our Radar in March 2024
"Artists on Our Radar" is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we've determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
Born into a family of artists, Nuria Maria grew up improvising short, impressionistic compositions on the piano. Many of her recent abstract landscapes include visual references to such passages, composed based on the sounds of home-like the jingle of silverware being put away, a loved one's footfalls in the next room, or perhaps a bird chirping on a branch outside.
Maria's piano compositions are not only referenced but mirrored in her visual art practice, which is similarly improvisational and impressionistic. She paints over old canvases until she has conjured the mood of an exact place and moment in time. In a body of work on view through March 30th in "Tule Tänne," a solo exhibition at Cadogan Gallery, those fleeting impressions are often drawn from long walks she took during a six-month stay in Wales. In works like August (2024), rendered in acrylic on linen, the artist's feathery brushstrokes propel cloudlike forms across the canvas, as if the viewer were looking up at the sky just before rain.
