Marita Fraser

Marita Fraser is an artist working between London and Vienna. Fraser completed her studies at The Academy of Fine Art Vienna in 2010. She has had recent solo exhibitions with Kerstin Engholm Gallery Vienna, Gallery9 Sydney, Engen Stadt Museum and Winiarzyk Gallery Vienna.

 

Simultaneously, Marita Fraser analysizes the image material for structures and patterns which reappear in a constructivist style, consisting of forms and plane surfaces, which are partly monochromic and partly mark a blank space. Related to these abstract paintings are a group of works in which the basic geometric forms are representatives of the flowers transformed in formal style which evoke diagrams. Without showing the information behind the circles and their cut surface these works question the function of representation of images. In one instance, the issue of originality and reproduction in painting is questioned in the confrontation between a fabric mounted on a frame and a canvas which shows a oversized houndstooth pattern - which itself becomes an original. The issue of framing can also be found in the wooden structures, that appear in collages in which the actual images are covered with black plane shapes. The questioning of what can be defined as the positive and the negative of an image is echoed in the plaster forms, which stand independently for themselves but also through the indentations that refer to the potential positives which can be produces out of them. 

 

Selected group shows include The Real Thing, MU Eindhoven, Something New, Josh Lilley Gallery London, Afterimage, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, and Silver Moon, Lisa Ruyter Gallery. She has participated in numerous international artist residencies including Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz and Cite residency in Paris. Her work is held in public and private collections internationally.