Maureen Gubia (1984, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an independent artist who works simultaneously in both the Ecuadorian and international art scenes through online self-promotion since the early 2000s. She uses a variety of artistic materials, from watercolor and pastel to oil painting, to convey the appearances of real and imaginary f igures with a semi-abstract approach rooted in 20th-century expressionism and underground animation. Other creative areas include drawing, digital painting, virtual reality sculpture, and self-edited audiovisual production influenced by current technologies and sound art practices worldwide. She completed an artistic residency in Ayampe, Ecuador in 2019 and has participated in art fairs such as Art Lima in 2013 and (un)fair in Milan, Italy in 2023. Gubia’s intensely pigmented colors and precise brushstrokes represent ghostly folklore through references to found and discarded vernacular photography, turning toward a hazy yet deeply emotional portrait within a continuous artistic practice of world-building.
“I was intrigued how in her painting it showed many figures and characters ready to be deciphered; it’s not strictly a geometric figure compared to other types of flat art. Instead Gubia’s art has depth, movement, variability and ghostly happenings.”
Art show at the Hilton Colón Hotel in Guayaquil of the «Renacer Digital 2022» Collection at Opensea.
On October 4 and 5, 2022, a phygital experience took place; analogous art and digital art on the first edition of the Innova-T Latam 2022 technological congress.
