About

Angela Maray is an interdisciplinary artist based in Alexandria, Virginia. Her focus is primarily acrylic painting, incorporating abstract, figurative, and realistic approaches. Across media, her work invites viewers to step beyond self-imposed boundaries, fostering deeper connection with themselves and others by embracing contradiction with honesty. Maray gravitates toward outlines, silhouettes, and pared-down forms as entry points to larger existential questions, intending to interrupt the trance of daily habit and routine with consideration of the illusions and constructs that shape perception. She seeks to provoke a sense of surrender and freedom, unveiling the invisible qualities that define what it is to be human - qualities that are indestructible sources of deeper meaning and true joy.

The disruptions of 2020 gave rise to the creation of BATHUS, a collaborative, multi-sensory vision that centers on the meaning of 'bathus' as both "deep" and "dawn” with experiences that encourage participants to journey inward, using the work as a mirror for their own landscapes of being, where joy and self-mastery emerge naturally.