Maria Epes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Epes
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82146140/
EXHIBITIONS
Group Exhibitions
2024 Time Capsule, ILDE Festival 15, Libro Ve Artisa Pequena Edicion, Barcelona, Spain
Asheville Printmakers, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Asheville Print Studio, NC
Priintmaking, Bascom Art Center, Highlands, NC
2023 Contain Your Fear, Ramps Studio, Asheville, NC / Dayton Society of Artists, OH
Asheville Printmakers, Asheville Print Studio, NC
Other Worlds, ILDE Festival 14, Libro Ve Artisa Pequena Edicion, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Land & Sky, Botanicals, Nocturnes, Insects, Asheville Print Studio, NC
Contain Your Fear, Toe River Arts, Spruce Pine, NC
Ink on Paper, Asheville Printmakers, Mars Hill University, NC
2021 Print / Imprint: Asheville Printmakers at Piedmont Arts, Martinsville, VA
Pressing Forward: Asheville Printmakers, Toe River Arts, Spruce Pine, NC
Contain Your Fear, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Asheville Printmakers, Asheville Print Studio, NC
2020 Natural Impressions, North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, NC
Natural Impressions 2, Black Mountain Art Center, NC
Frameworks: Blackbrid Gallery, Asheville, NC
2019 Networks, Starfangled Press, Brevard, NC & Blackbird Gallery, Asheville, NC
Unrequited Leisure, ILSSA, Nashville, TN
2018 Segundo, Art Crit Group Exhibition, Asheville BookWorks, NC
It’s Alive: 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein, Asheville BookWorks, NC
Vessel, Books & Print, Transylvania County Public Library, Brevard, NC
2017 Secrets, Artist Book and Small Edition Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Bookopolis: Dream a Book, Asheville BookWorks, NC
Dreams, Books & Prints, Transylvania County Public Library, Brevard, NC
2016 Words/Matter, A Book Arts Library, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL
http://www.wordsmattershow.org/artists-2016#/maria-epes
On the Other Hand, Asheville Printmakers at UNCA, Asheville, NC
Personal Geographies II, Books & Prints, Transylvania County Public Library, Brevard, NC
2015 Book Seeds, Artist Book and Small Edition Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Renaissance, Book & Print, Frankel Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
It's About Time: A Workbook for the Working Person, Impractical Labor in
Support of the Speculative Arts, Asheville BookWorks, NC
Printocracy: Printmaking Portfolio Exchange, Asheville BookWorks, NC
Personal Geographies, Book & Prints, Transylvania County Public Library, Brevard, NC
2014 ReWriting History, Asheville Bookworks, NC
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2013 ILSSA, Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Asheville, NC
The Alternet, Artists in the Archives, A Collection of Card Catalogs, traveling US
2012 Aquaeous, Black Mountain Center for the Arts, NC
2011 Crowning: Enlightenment, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2010 Some Notion of Perfection, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2009 Shimmerings: A Moment in the Eye, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Towing the Line, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2008 Eat, Sleep, Pray, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2006 Genderland, A Collaborative Project, LHUCA Icehouse, Lubbock, TX
Here was New York, World Trade Center Art, Brooklyn Artists, NYC
2005 The Thread Project, One World, One Cloth, Isle of Palms, SC
2004 Constellations, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2002 World Trade Center Exhibits: Reaction, Exit Art, NYC; Unity Canvas, NYC; NJ Print Council, NJ
September 11 Memorial Portfolio: American Print Alliance, Atlanta, GA
9/11: The Artists Respond, The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ; Powersurge, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2000 Corazonada, Serrahima Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Artists’ Books, Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
1998 Women Artists in the NASA Art Program, NASA 40th Anniversary
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
1997 L. x W. x D. + ?, The Visual Arts Program, St. Mark’s Church-in-the Bowery, NYC
Generations: 1972-1997, A. I. R. Gallery, NYC
1996 In the Making: The First Ten Years of the Permanent Collection, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Look at the World Through Women’s Eyes, Global Focus &
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1995 Deviants, Perverts, Aliens & Feminazis / A Response to the Radical Right, Ceres Gallery, NYC
A Woman’s Place, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Global Focus: Women in Art and Culture, Fourth World Conference on Women, Bejing, China
Selections: An Invitational, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
1994 Art Ex Libris, Artspace, Richmond, VA
1992 Her Art Works, Curated by Linda Benglis, South Bend Art Center, Indiana
Piss on Patriarchy, SisterSerpents, Chicago
1991 The Abortion Project, Artists Space, NYC
Choice, A show for women’s reproductive rights, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
Inappropriate Men, ARC Gallery, Chicago
e-Mail Art, Utterances About Women, University of Illinois and N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
A Salute to Women: Artists’ Postcards and Albums from the International Festivals
in Copenhagen and Nairobi, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Concepts & Dimensions, Trumball Art Gallery, Warren, Ohio
Furious Women & Furious Art: SisterSerpents, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
1990 Black Listed / Whitewashed / Red-Handed: Speak Out on First Amendment Rights, NYC
Coming Climax of Wimmin, La MaMa La Galleria, NYC
Acceptable / Unacceptable, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Rattle Your Rage, SisterSerpents, Chicago Filmakers and ABC NoRio, NYC
Visions of Life, Chuck Levitan Gallery, NYC & Islip Satellite Gallery, LI
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Every Dog Has Their Day, Nadazul Gallery, River Arts District, Asheville, NC
2021 Altar Building: Earth Day on the Greenway, River Arts District, Asheville, NC
Come Honor Your Dead: A Ritual of Remembrance, Nadazul Gallery, Asheville, NC
2007 End of the Line Design, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2001-04 Rooms of My Own at The Healing House, An Installation at 687 Seminary Ave, Rahway, NJ
2001 Female Obsessions, Ceres Gallery, NYC
1999 Fellow Travellers, A 15-Year Retrospective, Serrahima Galeria d’art, Barcelona, Spain
1997 Blood Work and Body Parts, Ceres Gallery, NYC
1996 Spooners in the Land of Forks, La MaMa La Galleria, NYC
1994 Kill Yourself / Kiss Yourself, La MaMa La Galleria, NYC
1992 Drawing Blood, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Rebirthrite / Rebirthright, An Installation at La MaMa La Galleria, NYC
1991 Spiral Walk, An Installation for Broadway Village Art Festival, NYC
Birthrite / Birthright, An Installation at Ceres Gallery, NYC
The Arrival of the X-Factor, An Installation at Ceres Gallery, NYC
1990 Deathrite/Deathright, An Installation at Broadway Windows, NYU, NYC
1989 Born Again: The Second Coming, Franklin Furnace, NYC
1988 Rage, Revenge, & Restitution, Ceres Gallery, NYC
PROJECTS & MEDIA
2021 Printed Matter Books Arts Festival, Care + Practice, ILSSA, video by Global Heart
2020 Contributed to: CATCH: Covid Stories, publisher: L Ladendorf, Asheville, NC
2016 Rebirthrite, leader of altar building workshop at Sanctuaria, Asheville, NC
2003 Fiber and Feminism, included in slide lecture by Deborah Kruger, Amherst, MA
2000 Serrahima Gallery Artists’ Group, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Bloody Wimmin #3, The Rag by Graphic Divas & Text-Based Chicks: art reproduction
1995 Time Capsule, An Encyclopedia by Women Arists, published by Creative Time and SOS Int’l
for the Bejing Conference on Women:art reproductions Edited by Robin Kahn.
Introductions by Kathy Acker and Avital Ronell
1993 NBC TV Local News, Nov 18, “The Guns of November,” artist shown shooting artwork
Women’s Caucus for Art: Lecture on the publication of Wimmin x 1/Wimmin x 1 + 2
The Tenth Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research: Panelist for:
“Reinventing Menstruation,” a talk on my art in which menstrual blood is used
Book Publication: Wimmin x 1/Wimmin x 1 + 2, an artist’s book on major installations from
1988-1992 6 x 8”, 144 pages, 110 illustrations. Introduction by Arlene Raven
1992 Women’s Caucus for Art Conference:
Panelist for SisterSerpents, Chicago “Radical Feminist Art, or Unabashedly, Art with an Agenda”
1991– “The Goddess Altar in Cow Pasture Grove,” woman of power, Issue Nineteen
International Women’s Day Video Festival, Public Access TV, Boston
1981–83 On contract with NASA Art Program on Space Shuttle
Reproduction of works published in Discover Dec 1982 and included in exhibition:
Space Shuttle Art at the Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition in 1998.
http://randysrocketry.blogspot.com/2008/09/largest-solid-rocket-motors-ever-flown.html
https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/space-shuttle-art%3Aevent-exhib-3487
BIBILIOGRAPHY
2007, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Feminist Center for Art: Feminist Art Base Archive
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/maria-poythress-epes
https://fbxchanda.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/post-modern-feminist-art/
Aprill/May 2007, “Feminisms in the Singular,“ John Haber http://www.haberarts.com/gloalf.htm#role
April 2007, “Self-Portrait with Bullet Holes with Postscript ,” John Haber http://www.haberarts.com/epes.htm
Home News Tribune, August 2002, “She hones her art and the art of living,” Tamari
Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, Winter 2000, “The Aesthetics of Blood,” Perlmutter
El Mundo, June 1999, “Maria Epes escenifica su obsesion por la muerte,” Uberquoi
El Pais, July 1999, “Un art de sang i fum,” Serra; also Vanguardia, Avui, Marges, Guia Del O Cio
Gallery & Studio, May 1999, “New York Notebook,” Weidman
Richmond Times Dispatch, Feb 17 1994, “Getting a Good Read on Books as Fine Art,” Bullard
Iris, A Journal About Women, Winter 1993, Univ of VA: Featured artist
Woodstock Times, Sept 1993, “Blood Simple: For Maria Epes, the Medium is the Menses,” Kostar
Cover, Summer 1993, NYC: Book review: Wimmin x 1
Print Collector’s Newsletter, March–April 1993, NYC: Book review Wimmin x 1, Nancy Princinthal
Ms., November/December 1992: “Arts: To Defy, Reveal–And Heal,” Cindy Nemser
Kalliope, A Journal of Women’s Art, Winter l992, Jacksonville, FL
Creation Spirituality, Fall 1991, Berkeley, CA
Artists’ News, Nov 1991: “Price & Value:“The Mysterious Art of Pricing Your Art,” B.C., Canada
The New York Times, Feb 17, 1991: “On Dealing With the Issues of Identity,” Harrison
Newsday, Feb 8, 1991: “Family, Roots, Culture Inspire Women’s Visions,” Karin Lipson
Backgrounder, The Heritage Foundation, Jan 1991: “NEA: Misusing Taxpayers’ Money”
Village Voice, June 19, 1990: “ABC No Lady,” Arlene Raven
In These Times, April 4, 1990: “SisterSerpents’ Hiss and Hers,” John Stevenson
Chicago Free Weekly, March 16, 1990: “Group Efforts,” John Stevenson
COLLECTIONS
Bryn Mawr College Special Art Study Collection
Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC
Libraries at Cornell, Univ of CA at Berkeley, Univ of MI at Ann Arbor, Temple Univ
https://www.worldcat.org/title/wimmin-x-1-past-present-future-future-perfect-4-installations
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida & Washington, DC
Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Private collections in the US, Canada, England, Spain
AFFLIATION
2012– Asheville Printmakers, Asheville, NC https://ashevilleprintmakers.org
201l– ILSSA, Impractical Labor in Support of the Speculative Arts
2009– Book and Print Arts Collective, Asheville, NC
1988–2011 Ceres Gallery, A Women’s Cooperative Gallery, NYC.
2002–04 The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ; Member Board of Directors, Artist RoundTable, NYC
1990–92 Mob of Angels, Women’s Drumming Group led by Layne Redmond, NYC
1988–96 SisterSerpents, Radical Wimmin Using Art as a Weapon, Chicago
1988–98 Women’s Caucus for Art, NYC Chapter, Member of the Board of Directors
DEGREES
B. F. A. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
M.F.A. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA