Cecilia Mayr Mixed Media Painting - "Mosaicos #M1"

Cecilia Mayr (Brazilian, b. 1955). "Mosaicos #M1" mixed media painting on paper, n.d. Signed at lower right and titled at lower left. A luminous patchwork of memory and meditation, "Mosaicos #M1" by Cecilia Mayr is a celebration of color, texture, and the emotive potential of structure. Eight chromatic squares, arranged in a balanced grid, emerge from a richly mottled surface of ochres, siennas, and smoldering earth tones. Each square pulses with layered pigment - sapphire, garnet, emerald, gold - contained yet softly dissolving at the edges, as though time and light have been gently at work. Surrounding them, the raw ground flickers with gestural marks, errant drips, and paper textures that recall ancient walls, weathered maps, or desert stone. Size of painting: 24" W x 16" H (61 cm x 40.6 cm); of frame: 34" W x 27" H (86.4 cm x 68.6 cm) Mayr, born in Votuporanga, Brazil, brings a multicultural sensibility to her visual language. Her early training in philosophy, animation, and comic art in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro finds new resonance in this quiet but charged composition. Here, her Brazilian roots, European travels, and decades spent in the American Southwest coalesce in a singular voice - one equally attuned to geometry and intuition, discipline and spontaneity. The title "Mosaicos", Portuguese for "mosaics", evokes more than design - it gestures toward identity itself as a composite of experience, culture, and spiritual resonance. This piece, though modern in execution, carries the reverent stillness of devotional abstraction. It may call to mind stained glass, woven tapestries, or tiled cathedral floors - but just as easily, it echoes arid Arizona canyons or sunlit stucco walls. Mayr's long journey - from Brazil's animated studios to Phoenix's print workshops to galleries across London, New York, and Seattle - has yielded a visual language both grounded and transcendent. "Mosaicos #M1" invites the viewer into a meditative geometry, where pigment, paper, and memory fuse into something quietly radiant. About the Artist: "Cecilia Mayr was born in Votuporanga, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She studied Fine Art and Philosophy, earning her degree in Fine art and cartoon animation in 1977. She worked in Sao Paulo and Riode Janeiro with artist Pedro Sanchez. Her early professional experience came in creating animated television commercials and comic books from 1976 to 1977, in Brazil. After traveling to Spain and Italy, she moved to United States in 1978, taking residency in Phoenix. Spending five years in graphic design. In 1984 Cecilia faced the need for inner expression and worked at a studio downtown Phoenix painting watercolor and mono prints. In 1988, she moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, showing with Rosenbaum Fine Art. The desert beckoned her back to Phoenix in the end of 1990. From the end of 1992 to May of 1998 while living in Scottsdale, her work was shown in various galleries in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London. She currently resides in Seattle, WA. Her work ar [sic] sold in many parts of the world." (source: Think Art Gallery website) Item # 195015

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