ARTIST STATEMENT

I believe that art is a form of communication that transcends language, offering space

for ambiguity, emotion, and contradiction. My work explores how we experience our surroundings and the emotional terrain of our shared human condition.

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My background in architecture and classical music shapes my approach to space, form, and rhythm. Each piece begins with a feeling, memory, or lingering moment and develops intuitively, with materials chosen in response to its emotional character.

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I hope to create a place to pause, question, remember, or recognize something of oneself; leaving room for the viewer’s experience and a connection between the personal and the shared.

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ABOUT

Maya Leites is a visual artist based on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with a background in architecture and classical music. Working primarily in painting and drawing, she explores the human experience through memory, emotion, time, place, and motion. Her preferred mediums include oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, and ink.

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Alongside her studio practice, Maya has taught art to children and adults and founded community arts initiatives, including ArTchitecture, a studio introducing children to art and architecture, and Discover Arts in the Park, a Seattle nonprofit bringing art and music to the community and advocating for the adaptive reuse of a historic building as a community performing arts center.

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Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, including at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art; Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, Washington; and Art Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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"Great art is the outward expression of the inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world" - Edward Hopper​​