Maria Boulan was born in Buenos Aires Argentina, where she graduated as an MD. After moving to New York City, she trained and established a private practice in Psychiatry and Freudian Psychoanalysis. In 2006 she became a registered student at The National Academy School of Fine Arts (NASFA). She studied watercolor painting with Susan Shatter and Kamile Talbott, printmaking with Kathy Caraccio and abstract oil painting with Sonia Gechthoff and Maurizio Pellegrin. She participated regularly with watercolors and oil paintings in numerous exhibitions and was awarded first prize in printmaking in 2011. In 2014, she joined the Art Studio Intensive Program at NASFA. In May 2015, she exhibited her fabric and wire installation piece “Spirits reaching for signals” at The Justin Gallery, National Academy Museum. In May 2016, she exhibited her 8 piece plaster-cloth and wire-mesh sculpture “Family” as part of the Creative Mischief Group Show. Her graduation exhibition in November 2016 showcased her recent production in oil painting, sculpture and printmaking. Maria’s style fits the Abstract Expressionism movement. Both her oil paintings and prints are characterized by bold gestural brushstrokes informed by brilliant colors. In her sculptures and oil paintings she has used unconventional materials such as fabric and metallic mesh. Her creative process is intuitive, exploratory, often resulting in serendipitous discoveries. Maurizio Pellegrin, Director of the NASFA, characterizes her work as “a structure of full and empty areas…there is always a complex system of layers that are not fully covering themselves…a gentle tension always animates the area of color that, through shapes based on curves, liberate tridimensional metallic nets, supporting an aerial desire of the surfaces…there is a sense of musicality, with some references to mathematical codes. Nothing is revealed but it is there, between gesture and surprise, a contained wonder where the limit is only the border of her projection on the inner world.” This is how Maria Boulan describes her approach: “I dive into painting and sculpture using an unplanned, gestural approach that generates abstract lines, shapes. It is a discovery process best described by serendipity. My action is informed by a burning desire to generate a structure with color and shape from a given material. The result is detached from intended meaning and the final structures surprise me as mysterious unimagined objects. They lend themselves to all kinds of personal narratives, memories and associations to who I am. Thus, they represent a new world with its own language and rules, reflecting a previous unknown aspect of myself.” Her work is in several private collections. She currently works in her art studio in Quogue and on collaborative projects with Master Printmaker Kathy Caraccio in New York City.