Marissa

Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Muriel Hasbun. Muriel was my professor at the Corcoran, and continued to be a supportive friend and someone I looked up to as an artist and a person after that. She was a poetic, sensitive, profound and reflective artist, a gently powerful force, a warm and wise presence. She was one of the professors who had the biggest impact on me, as I know she did on so many others. It’s striking to realize the lasting ripple effects professors and mentors have on us, and I’m forever grateful she was one of mine.❤️ Sending love to everyone who knew and loved her.

⛓️Posting this older piece before the year is gone!: Horror Vacui, resin, epoxy clay, foam, acrylic, aluminum leaf, altered, found photograph, 13 x 11.5 x 4 in

Twin Snakes, 2025, cast resin and acrylic, ~13 x 11 x 1.5 in. each Winter Open Studios this Saturday 12/13 at @ampersandartspace and surrounding spaces! 12 - 5pm at 3708 Wells Ave, Mount Rainier. Come say hi! I have a few new and in-progress resin/mixed media works and some older photographs in my flat files for sale if you’re so inclined, plus tons of gorgeous ceramics by my studio mates, as always.

Gateway Arts District Open Studios this Saturday from 12 - 5: over 250 participating artists along the Rt. 1 corridor including *this guy.* I’ll be in my studio at Ampersand Art Space with a couple works in progress, please stop by! 3708 Wells Ave. Mt. Rainier. Pictured: no title yet, resin, photographs, acrylic

Open studios today in Mount Ranier. Come say hi @ampersandartspace ! I have some older drawings and photos + a couple new (in-progress?) pieces like this one on the walls of my new stude. Plus tons of gorgeous ceramics and other works by the other ampersand artists. 3708 Wells Ave

“Radial Survey Vol. 3” continues at @silvereyecenter through 2/3 - please check it out if you can! Along with some of my photos, three of my first sculptural works are on view including “Red Remnants,” a collection of “disappearing” cast objects under a vitrine, some with forms half missing and some dust-free shapes on the fabric showing where missing objects used to be. When I made this, I was thinking about loss that happens while you watch and preemptive grief for something or someone before they’re gone.🥀 I love this show and it’s an honor to be included with the likes of @alannafields @shanerocheleau @larry_william21 @lisatoboz @eduardolrivera_ @akeabrionne

Thanks so much to everyone who came to see Blister Pearl! This felt like a big one; it was meaningful and cathartic to share it with you. The show is officially de-installed and my partner is officially requesting I procure a storage space that isn’t our house. 😅 Special thanks to my friends who helped make this show possible. @petertsouras made the central base to look super solid but cleverly come apart and I’ll never be over it. Thank you, @ivakotarecording @emilymerkins @oshannonburns @dita_jironmurphy @mocaarlington @bonnersale and everyone who took time to visit and talk with me🤍💎🐌💦🌷🥩🍊🪱🦋🦪

👋, 2023! Thank you for all the free gifts🩷

It’s the final week to see 🎀 𝐵𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒫𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁 🎀 @mocaarlington ! Through Sunday 12/17. 💎🦪 From the essay by @dita_jironmurphy : “Unlike Long’s previous two dimensional memento mori, “Blister Pearl” offers viewers a moment in which death and rebirth co-exist. Various art historical subjects inform the installation, among them Renaissance grottoes, saint’s sepulchers and altars, all of which are thought of as sites of mystic transformation. To underscore this idea, Long pulls imagery from her forays into memento mori — in this case translucent flowers, the waxy rinds of discarded oranges and watermelons and slimy slugs— and allows audiences to witness their metamorphosis. In one corner of the installation, a bloom of hatched larvae crawl along the walls, destined to turn into the black moths that feed on the fruit rinds that appear throughout the installation. Through them, Long underscores the idea that time and decay are instrumental in the process of creation. Entering “Blister Pearl” is a deeply physical experience. The flesh-toned gauzy curtains that envelop the installation give the viewer the sense of walking into a sacred space, perhaps into a womb, or possibly a hospital operating room. In each case, these spaces are associated with change: nobody enters any of these places without emerging a different version of themselves. Within the installation is white rectangular structure that reads as a sepulcher. This sepulcher is meant to be encountered in-the-round, and the arms, legs and feet of a figure (presumably female) are perceptible amongst a host of stalagmites and stalactites that protrude from the surface. In the installation there is a visible push and pull as objects exist within oppositional states: the interred figure itself could be rising or sinking into the surface of the sepulcher, as could the stalagmites that proliferate around the edges.”

[slug emoji] Blister Pearl continues at @mocaarlington through 12/17

Blister Pearl curtain and lily details with some excerpts from the catalog essay by @dita_jironmurphy (coming soon!): “Behind the curtained walls of the installation, thinly veiled lilies spring forth from oozing human organs on the floor….The plastic flowers along the edge of the sepulcher transform into sinew, and even sprout into umbilical cords. All of these details are rendered in delicate pastel tones; sweet colors that belie their macabre content.” Photos by @vivianmariephoto

I'm sincerely thrilled and honored to be included in “Radial Survey Vol. 3," on view now @silvereyecenter in Pittsburgh. I loved meeting the other artists this week - @eduardolrivera_ @alannafields @akeabrionne @shanerocheleau @larry_william21 @lisatoboz - and hearing more about their brilliant, sensitive work. Huge thanks to the Silver Eye team especially @htrompeteler and @hsuleol - It’s a gift to work with such smart, thoughtful curators and it's meant a lot to me that as a photography center, they were interested in the throughline of my photography and sculpture, both of which are on view in the show. Please go see it if you're able, it's up through 2/3/24. Special thanks to the amazing @nakeya_brown for nominating me! 🖤The whole experience has been nothing but lovely.