Maria Park constructs her images by stenciling and layering distinct shapes and blended fields of color, creating a perceptual play combines the crisp, flattened characteristics of screen graphics with the gestural and visceral effects of the painterly surface. Park’s artwork attempts to measure encounters of natural and artificial presence, marked by the containment or eruption of an emotional expression. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; and installations at the Museum of Art at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA. She has received numerous awards such as the MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2003 and the Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation in 2002. Park studied at Washington University, St. Louis, Wimbledon School of Art and Parsons School of Design and holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.