About Me.
Anat Maya is a visual artist working primarily in two-dimensional media, combining painting, drawing, print, and collage on paper, canvas, and wood. Her large, often monochromatic works explore the tension between human culture and the natural environment and the narratives we use to tell our lives.
More about my work
Anat Maya is a contemporary artist whose practice centers on two-dimensional work that merges painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage across paper, canvas, and wood. Her visual language is characterized by restrained, often monochromatic palettes and large formats. At the heart of her inquiry lies the complex encounter between people and place—the friction between culture and the natural world—and the personal and collective narratives through which we construct meaning.
In “Samson,” Maya approached the mythical figure through line, mark, and erasure, articulating the contradictions of character and deed in visual form. In “Binary Field” (2021), she examined the agricultural field as today’s “back yard” of culture. Drawing from her roots in the labor-settlement ethos and years of living in rural landscapes, she traced a transformation from fertile, cultivated ground to zones accumulated with human-made waste—an index of our generative and destructive capacities.
Her exhibition “Peonies — the Beauty that Withers” treated the flower as a domesticated cultural object embedded in life-cycle rituals. Resisting seduction by pure prettiness, she sought the artificiality and fragility of the cultivated bloom.
Maya’s current body of work investigates time as an elastic, mutable dimension. Recurring images—among them Greek funerary vessels and the field hare—thread together reflections on cyclicality, transience, and the moment’s capacity to unravel and re-form.
