Marie-Dolma Chophel graduated with her MFA from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France, in 2008. Her work has been shown internationally and throughout the United States in museums, art centers and galleries, with a Solo Show at Equity Gallery (NYC) in 2019, and in Group Exhibitions including the Leob Art Center(NY), Mc Nichols Civic Center (CO), W.Ming Art (NYC), the Berkeley Museum BAMPFA (CA), the Rossi & Rossi Gallery (UK & Hong Kong), Atelier Clot (France), 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel(NYC), the Queens Museum (NY), CU Art Museum (CO), Fleming Museum (VT) and Samuel Dorsky Museum (NY).
Statement
My works feature atmospheric and suggestive depictions of landscape or cosmic territory, mapping stratified, fragmented geographies, made of multiple layers and transparencies. Painting being my primary medium, I employ acrylic, oil, spray paint, paint marker and enamel, always searching for a confluence of these materials to convey a sense of flux linking the concrete and the abstract, the natural and the artificial, the real and the virtual, mapping my relationship to these intricate ever-flowing terrains.
My observations of micro and macro landscape, as well as my interest for cosmology, natural sciences and the effects of technology on our condition, flow into cardinal points within my inspirations. The adding and sanding of the accumulated layers of paint along with the use of various marks, topographic nets and organic shapes and colors, reveal networks that are either mixing or competing, exploring the tensions between chaos and control, the expression of natural forces undergoing mutations, and the weight of their emotional impact.
As the layers of paint and lines create - or destroy - worlds, painting is for me a dedication of time to space. It is a slow process acting as a form of resistance to the very fast paced outside world and the ubiquity of surface scrolling.
With each work, whether through painting, installation or video, I engage new narratives of ever-evolving mind's inner geography, where I can make space for contemplation and impede the flow of time which seems otherwise accelerated and compressed.