Maria Causa

Born in 1963, Causa is an artist whose post modernist esthetic emerged in the 1980’s- somewhere between Argentina’s return to democracy and the Falkland Islands war.  Her wooden towers were influenced by a rising shift to conceptualism as well as an international emphasis on figuration.  At once monumental and approachable, she constructs her towers with a bit of irony.  The use of basic materials and geometry lend a simple elegance to the forms.  They give new meaning to abstraction of the human figure and serve as a bridge to conceptualism.

  Causa has recently exhibited in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and the Bay Area.  Her works are in the Buenos Aires collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

"Minaret II", 1997

49" x 11", wood sculpture