About
Biography
Maria Lindenfeldar (b. 1968) is a visual artist who works in Philadelphia and lives in Pennington, NJ. A publishing creative director and former book designer, Maria has exhibited with the Da Vinci Art Alliance and is a member of InLiquid and the Cerulean Arts Collective. Her first solo show is scheduled at Cerulean Arts for September 2025. Maria holds a M.A. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A. from Georgetown University and has studied painting at PAFA and Gage Academy of Art, recently completing the Modern Color Atelier there. She is Creative Director at Princeton University Press.
Artist Statement
I am a perceptual painter interested in the tactile qualities of oil paint and the abstract patterns created by light and shadow. My process is physical, iterative, and moody. Each painting has multiple layers built up over dozens of painting sessions. I love to draw, paint, and scrape in a kind of improvisational dance. Value studies, preparatory drawings, and tonal underpainting give structure to what often feels like a chaotic application of paint. I like to revisit everyday things. My paintings reflect how they change, either in reality or as filtered through my perspective on a given day.
