Spotlight, 2004-07
Maria Zerres is a vibrant figure in contemporary painting. Her educational journey began with art studies in Cologne and Vienna, and she subsequently ran studios in Cologne, then New York and Traunreut.
Zerres' work is celebrated for its interplay of abstraction and figuration. She employs spontaneous, improvisational brushstrokes combined with vivid, expressive color-often invoking themes of entropy and motion. Her compositions blur the boundaries between recognizable form and abstract gesture, with energetic lines and vibrant palettes creating both tension and harmony she often works across multiple pieces simultaneously, owing to the slow-drying nature
of poppy seed oil and her prolific creative flow.
In 2016, she had a solo show at the Sharjah Art Museum titled Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos, presented alongside Angela Bulloch. The exhibition explored entropy and the tension between order and disorder through Zerres' dynamic visual language