About the artist
Marina Voss
Brushwork detail, illustrative canvas.
Born in Joinville (SC), 1984. Lives and works in Curitiba.
She studied Visual Arts and spent the following years between printmaking and painting, until she swapped the fine brush for the wide palette knife in 2018. She works in an old warehouse in the Prado Velho district, where she receives visitors by appointment.
Statement
I paint on the floor. The canvas lies flat, the paint runs where the body sends it, and I stand back up to see what is left. The tides are not landscapes: they record how long a gesture takes to dry.
I work in short series. Each begins in a notebook of gouache on paper, made fast and without correcting. From there come the forms that go to canvas, at body scale. I use few colours per picture and leave the mistakes visible, because that is where a painting breathes.
CV
- 2026Breath, Galeria Passagem, Curitiba
- 2025Tides, Espaço Cais, Porto Alegre
- 2024Active Surface, Casa Mirante, São Paulo
- 2023Painting residency, Ateliê Fundo, Paraty
- 2022Blocks, Galeria Passagem, Curitiba
- 2018Swaps the fine brush for the wide palette knife: start of large-format painting
- 2011BA in Visual Arts
Biography, dates and venues are fictional, made up for this example.