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Marina

Chisty

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Painting

Marina

Studio Location:

43-01 22nd street Long Island City, 11101

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303

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Artist Bio:

Marina Chisty is a Russian-born, New York-based artist whose abstract  paintings explore transformation, impermanence, and the agency of  materials. She holds an MA in Economics from Fordham University and is  currently pursuing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of  Chicago.


Her practice bridges analytical thinking and intuitive experimentation,  working primarily with pigment, water, and charcoal to create  compositions that echo erosion, sedimentation, and organic growth.  Influenced by philosophies such as New Materialism and posthumanism,  Chisty sees materials as active collaborators, shaping the work  alongside her.


She has exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally. Marina is currently based in NYC, with a studio in Long Island City.



Artist Statement:

My practice centers on transformation—not only of materials, but of how  change, continuity, and belonging are experienced through the lens of  being a person in a constantly shifting world. There’s a tendency to  believe certain things are stable—identity, environment, even the ground  beneath one’s feet—yet everything is in flux, shifting gradually like  erosion or rupturing without warning. My work embraces instability,  creating space for uncertainty rather than resisting it.


Water and pigment are not just tools but collaborators. They move  unpredictably, dispersing and settling in ways I cannot fully control.  At the beginning of each painting, I relinquish control, allowing the  materials to behave freely. Only later do I intervene, responding to  what has emerged. This process mirrors how landscapes are formed—not  through singular dramatic events, but through the accumulation of  subtle, often imperceptible changes over time.


Painting holds a fundamental paradox: it captures movement while  ultimately becoming still. My work engages with that tension. The  resulting forms inhabit a liminal space between the personal and the  universal—recalling patterns of erosion, geological formations, or  cellular structures at both macro and micro scales. From afar, they  suggest vast shifts in terrain; up close, the intricate interactions of  pigment and water reveal the agency of the materials themselves.

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