María Zamura
María Zamura
María Zamura is a Venezuelan interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice bridges printmaking, textiles, and memory. She began her studies at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, and earned her BA with honors from the University of Washington. Following an apprenticeship at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and receiving the Pratt/Seattle Print Arts grant, Zamora debuted large-scale works in her solo exhibition, Mi Jardín.
Her work creates surreal, layered landscapes that exaggerate the flora and fauna of her childhood. Through intricate screen-printing techniques, Zamora explores the coexisting realities of contemporary Venezuela while maintaining a continuous dialogue with her homeland from afar. Based in Seattle, she also teaches screen printing at the Pratt Fine Arts Center.
María Zamura is a Venezuelan interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice bridges printmaking, textiles, and memory. She began her studies at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, and earned her BA with honors from the University of Washington. Following an apprenticeship at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and receiving the Pratt/Seattle Print Arts grant, Zamora debuted large-scale works in her solo exhibition, Mi Jardín.
Her work creates surreal, layered landscapes that exaggerate the flora and fauna of her childhood. Through intricate screen-printing techniques, Zamora explores the coexisting realities of contemporary Venezuela while maintaining a continuous dialogue with her homeland from afar. Based in Seattle, she also teaches screen printing at the Pratt Fine Arts Center.
In Strata, María Zamora presents screen-printed works that map the emotional and geographic geography of exile, displacement, and remembered landscapes. While Strata examines physical compression and temporal accumulation, Zamora captures how home and origin reside in the mind as layered, enduring strata.
In Strata, María Zamora presents screen-printed works that map the emotional and geographic geography of exile, displacement, and remembered landscapes. While Strata examines physical compression and temporal accumulation, Zamora captures how home and origin reside in the mind as layered, enduring strata.
Her intricate screen prints layer exaggerated Venezuelan flora and surreal environmental forms onto paper, creating a visual archive of her homeland built from afar. Through the mechanical process of screen printing—applying ink layer by precise layer—Zamora mirrors the exhibition’s central theme: that memory, like geological rock or industrial waste, accumulates over time to form a foundational bedrock. Her works serve as a vibrant, evocative layer within Strata, demonstrating how cultural identity and longing press through distance to shape our present terrain.
Her intricate screen prints layer exaggerated Venezuelan flora and surreal environmental forms onto paper, creating a visual archive of her homeland built from afar. Through the mechanical process of screen printing—applying ink layer by precise layer—Zamora mirrors the exhibition’s central theme: that memory, like geological rock or industrial waste, accumulates over time to form a foundational bedrock. Her works serve as a vibrant, evocative layer within Strata, demonstrating how cultural identity and longing press through distance to shape our present terrain.
