Our Virtual Visit series takes a behind-the-scenes look at what our community members are up to through studio tours and conversations about their creative practices. Join us twice a month on Wednesdays 7pm EST on IG Live.

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Ana Maria Farina paints with a gun––a tufting gun––along with needles, hooks, and knots. Repurposing a phallic signifier of violence, she creates vibrant objects of comfort that inhabit a mystical pictorial space between abstraction and representation. Farina was born and raised in Brazil and is now based in the Hudson Valley, New York. She attended Columbia University and SUNY New Paltz for her graduate studies, and in 2018 she was awarded a fellowship to the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. Farina’s work has been featured in many spaces throughout New York such as the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, the Wassaic Project, the Garrison Art Center, the Dorsky Museum, Paradice Palase, Susan Eley Fine Art, among others. Farina is the 2021 recipient of the College Art Association Fellowship in Visual Arts.