January 2022 - The Siren Collection and work from A Lack of Control is included in the Into the Open exhibition at Detroit Artists Market!
Friday, January 21 – February 19, 2022
Curated by Anita Bates
To bring something into the open means it is made public, not subject to concealment or obfuscation. The exhibition, Into the Open, intends to do just that; to make more visible the diverse and formidable work of Detroit-area artists, Mariam Ezzat, Mara Magyarosi-Laytner, Priscilla Phifer, Heloisa Pomfret, Alice Smith, Mandisa Smith, and Jessica Wildman Katz. The varied art and design elements co-mingle via both 2D and 3D work, presenting a rich tapestry of talent and craftsmanship.
December 2021 - The 2021 Lensbaby Shoot Extraordinary Photography Virtual Conference was December 7th-9th and there is still a ton of great programming available. Mara, as both an educator and a Lensbaby Ambassador, spoke about Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively and featured work from Mistrusting My Nature, A Lack of Control, and The Untended Garden.
September 2021 - Images from The Untended Garden and A Lack of Control were featured in an article on Lensbaby.com along with a great interview about Mara’s background, work, and motivations as an artist.
August 2021 - A Siren’s Call is a solo exhibition of abstract, experimental images by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner created during her residency at The Siren, Detroit in August 2020. The large scale, experimental transfer pigment process images are the largest images that Mara has ever created.
“I have spent my entire life trying to control every single little thing around me - often successfully, but at a great detraction to my own personal health and happiness. The only space in my life that I let go and allow “things to be” as they are is photography. In fact, I am often going in the opposite direction - I am actively chasing a lack of control in myself through my work.
Any photography that is too perfect, too particular, too measured, is completely uninteresting to me. I want to find the spaces where photography is mysterious, unpredictable, and filled with change. I view my work as a continuous set of experiments - because of that, when I “perfect” a method within the craft, I find ways to either pivot or abandon completely for fresh space. I have lived in that experimental space through creating abstractions by shooting through glass or replicating through double exposure, creating images that feel both familiar and otherworldly, a space of light and texture that cannot be easily replicated by the natural eye. I have chosen to work within abstraction due to wanting to chase a world less mundane than the one that I occupy, one where there is curiosity in any space that is observed for a little more time.”
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