Mara Solenne
Painter · New York
Oil on linen. The weight of still water.
Enter the Exhibition
Sediment No. 7
Oil on linen · 120 × 90 cm
2025
Sediment No. 7
Oil on linen
"The canvas holds memory the way soil holds water — slowly, reluctantly, then all at once."
Estuary at Dusk
Oil and encaustic on panel · 90 × 120 cm
2025
Estuary at Dusk
Oil and encaustic on panel
"Encaustic holds the light differently than oil — it traps it, bends it, makes it amber."
The Weight of Fog
Oil on canvas · 150 × 100 cm
2024
The Weight of Fog
Oil on canvas
"Painted in three sessions. The fog arrived on its own — I only provided the ground."
The Studio
Where the work
is made
Flake white, raw umber, bone black.
The palette is never cleaned mid-session.
Canvas weave, 12-thread linen.
Ground with three coats of rabbit skin glue.
North light, Williamsburg studio.
Painted between 6am and noon only.
"I work with materials that resist — linen that pulls back, encaustic that sets before you're ready, oil that dries on its own schedule. The friction is the point. The painting is a negotiation."
— Mara Solenne, Studio Notes, 2025
Selected
Exhibition History
Press
"Solenne's surfaces hold the viewer like a conversation that doesn't want to end."
Artforum
·September 2025
"There is a patience in this work that feels radical in the current moment."
The New York Times
·Arts & Leisure, 2024
"Each canvas is a room you enter slowly and leave reluctantly."
frieze
·Issue 241, 2025
Studio, 2026
Available Works
Littoral I
80 × 60 cm · 2026
Price on request
Estuary at Dusk II
100 × 75 cm · 2025
Price on request
Ground Study No. 12
40 × 30 cm · 2026
Price on request
Mara Solenne
Studio Catalogue · 2026
84
Pages
32
Works
Format
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Studio Catalogue
84 pages. Artist statement, exhibition history, available works, and process notes. High-resolution PDF.