About Maria Morabito

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Maria Morabito is a visual artist born and raised in Italy. Her artistic practice primarily focuses on painting and sculpture and is inspired by diverse sources including maps, city planning, and archaeological sites. Morabito’s artworks are dynamic compositions of geometric and organic forms woven together through the lens of memory, perception, free association, and imagination.

Morabito has exhibited at The Hammond Museum, Denis Bibro Fine Arts in New York, and Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia. Her artworks are held in various corporate and private collections across the United States and Europe. She has participated in numerous exhibitions curated by prominent figures in the art world including Robert Storr, Barbara O'Brien, William Bailey, and Nancy Graves. Morabito currently lives and works in New York City.

My artistic practice is driven by a relentless desire to challenge and expand both formal and conceptual boundaries. I aim to create spaces where memory, perception, and imagination converge revealing our profound interconnectedness— with the environment, with one another, and with the countless threads of human history that shape our present.

Through painting, I investigate the interwoven nature of human experience. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources—including maps, city planning, and archaeological sites—I explore how traces of human activity resonate through the lens of memory, perception, free association, and imagination. My work navigates the tension between contrasting elements: representation and abstraction, geometric and organic forms, and complementary colors. By orchestrating these contrasts, I create dynamic compositions that activate pictorial space and invite viewers into an engaged, contemplative encounter with the work.

Maria Morabito

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