USA Projects

Maria Creyts' high resolution photo panoramas picture subjects she constructs from textiles.  Designed as fine art for contemporary interiors, most of the images she creates can repeat seamlessly to create a frieze that extends across a wall of any width.

In 2010 and 2011, the artist's photo friezes have been shown at the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City, and at BNIM Architects' Storefront for Art and Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, both in Kansas City, Missouri.  Several of her images have been showcased in the 2011 Chicago and New Orleans Billboard Art Projects.  Ms. Creyts is a graduate of Yale University School of Art, and she signs her work, mariaurora.

Through choice of fabric, Ms. Creyts incorporates striking color and pattern into her work.  In 2007 she was impressed by an artist's talk where slides from Nigeria showed everyone in the camera's view wearing hand-patterned indigo in varied shades of blue.  In 2011 she was invited to study adire indigo resist methods and design through an artist's residency at the University of Lagos and completed this project in December and January.

In "Panoramic Patterns" (4/21/2011), the Kansas City Star review of neo PANOS at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Dana Self describes the artist as "...a curious media traveler, someone who refuses to let a material's limitations or its nature stand in the way of her inquisitiveness."

Pictured above, Maria Creyts with her photo frieze, raggedy rose (22" high, here 19 feet 8 inches), installed at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in her 2011 solo exhibition, neo PANOS.  On top left are lengths of the photo frieze naranja canela presented as a framed diptych (84" together, 2010).