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Martinez-Cañas brings a sense of her own history and past, as well as a fresh and experimental attitude, to all of her work. Her medium can best be described loosely as “photo-based” in that over the last thirty years she has em- ployed virtually every photographic medium in realizing her ideas. Although her work can be technically elaborate, the
process never gets in the way of the forcefulness and impact of her imagery. She was born in 1960 in Havana, Cuba, and be- cause of the revolution her fam- ily moved to Puerto Rico when she was an infant. She attended college in the United States, and received a BFA from the Philadel- phia College of Art in 1982 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1984. Subsequently, she moved to Mi- ami where she lives and works in the Little Havana section.
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Untitled #18 (Rebus + Diversions)
mixed media 44'' x 84''
Maria Martinez-Cañas
