Maya Ciarrocchi
Bronx, NY
Maya Ciarrocchi is an interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, printmaking, video, and performance.
MessageMaya Ciarrocchi's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has received residencies and fellowships from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, Millay Arts, UCross, Visual Studies Workshop, and Wave Hill. Her projects received funding from the Bay and Paul Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Franklin Furnace Fund, Jerome Foundation, Map Fund, Mertz Gilmore, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Puffin Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. In addition to her studio practice, Ciarrocchi has created award-winning projection designs for dance and theater.
Ciarrocchi earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA from Purchase College, Purchase, NY.
Statement
Maya Ciarrocchi is an interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, printmaking, video, and performance. Her projects center on vanished histories through the lens of Queerness and her Ashkenazi ancestry. She investigates how displacement writes itself into generational consciousness by layering maps and architectural renderings of disappeared and mythological places. The resulting compositions construct new, fantastical spaces that offer possibilities for healing and remembrance.
Ciarrocchi's previous career as a dancer/choreographer and theatrical designer allowed her to work in various formats across scale, technique, and palette ranging from performance in site-specific locations to large-scale projections in traditional and experimental theatrical venues. These past experiences inform her current multi-disciplinary studio practice, which includes monochromatic prints and drawings, video, participatory movement-based performances, and vibrantly painted color abstractions. These projects vary from works on paper to large-scale public artworks and site-specific installations.
Recent work includes Site: Yizkor, a performance commemorating disappeared places through video, music, and personal narrative, and Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities, an installation of suspended cyanotype prints on silk that illustrate historical maps and drawings of fantastical architectural structures. This work considers the impact of urbanization on New York City water systems and their shorelines now inaccessible to city residents.
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