“Maya Skarzenski is an interdisciplinary artist fusing together painting, textiles, and photography. The bulk of her portfolio includes mixed media paintings and soft sculpture installations. Material exploration allows Skarzenski to create bodily imagery that is sensual, fragile, playful, and ambiguous. Developed from her fascination with the body’s dis/connection with the self she uses it to reflect on fluidity in sexuality, physical health, and identity.By salvaging beauty from the fear and unease in relation to the human body, her work explores the intersections between the abject and the beautiful. She investigates the body dismembered and reconstructed as landscapes, new creatures, and as objects of ornamentation.”