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Born in Thousand Oaks, California in 1982, Vanessa Maida is a self-taught artist. After traveling the United States, Canada, and Mexico as part of her high-school curriculum, she settled in the bay area for 6 years. She started producing artwork in the form of poetry books accompanied by collage while attending Sonoma State University. After a serious accident resulting in short-term memory loss, Vanessa began documenting her life through Polaroid photographs, hand-made books, and collage. Soon after a short-lived moment of residing in Brooklyn, she began showing her work in group exhibits in New York and California, as well as assisted in hosting open studios in her quaint but lively neighborhood of Bushwick, NY- her first taste of showcasing artwork aside from her own.
After her experiences in Brooklyn and the bay area, Vanessa decided to open a gallery in the mission district of San Francisco called Fort Gallery, an interdisciplinary contemporary art space and music venue that has recently moved to downtown Oakland in correlation with the Oakland Art Murmur.
When she is not nannying for a family of triplets in the mission or running Fort, Vanessa is busy preparing for her next series-dresser drawer and suitcase dioramas filled with found objects and tape collage. Each Diorama is based on a muse and their environment, titling the series, “Little Worlds.”
Vanessa Maida
unvanecessary@gmail.com
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