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24 x 26" My work opens a platform for discussion on the topics of resilience, trauma and cultural displacement. I seek to bring awareness to the emotional baggage and the struggle that survivors have to conceal in daily life by exploring psychological connection to daily life environments. My large-scale oil paintings employ portraits of individuals behind masks, elements of wreckage and fragments of nostalgic interiors creating an intersection between reality and idealization, between opportunities and limitations, between grand and mundane. Somehow, presence and absence could exist separately and together in parallel. Traumatic life experiences such as childhood separation from family and from home, war, as well as my becoming a mother during the Covid-19 pandemic have created layers of fog over memories. In my studio practice I dissect, peel, slice, unveil and reorganize extreme experiences to make sense of the fragmented and the destroyed in search of a feeling of belonging.

8 x 7 x 6" Maidy Morhous expresses herself through the medium of bronze which allows her to portray the extremes of the soft flow of water to the harsh asphalt pavement of our world. The artwork encompasses the pop theme of presenting commonplace objects as fine art. It is meant to engage the viewer and allow them to contemplate and pull from within, and for a moment disengage from the outside world. Referred to as contemporary still life sculptures Morhous continually searches to portray her environment in the world today. These sculptures expose the view to and pull them in to react and question what is being viewed – be it life and one’s existence, the world’s plight or just to bring a smile. Idiomatic titles prompt metaphorical interpretations to these works with hints at multilayered meanings.

7 x 7" I wonder what it means to make art at a time when it seems we humans are not up to maintaining the health of our beautiful planet and its creatures. What I know is that for me, making art is like being a therapist, and is like living life. Everything has a way of falling apart and then gathering together, making form out of the unformulated, continually layering and digging beneath the layers. The complexities of abstraction, color, line, and texture are the tools I employ in my passionate reach for exploration of the not yet imagined.

20 x 30" The Rowing Prints are a series of photo screenprints created to explore the sport of crew from the point of view of a rower and coach. They are derived from normal mundane images of regular practice sessions, mostly on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie. The photos are then manipulated to create screenprints, and hand colored on the screen itself. When printed with a sheer black ink, I create images that are at once both realistic and nostalgic, which is the aligned with the experience of rowers who ply the waters of the historic Hudson River rowing venue at Poughkeepsie today.

18 x 24" This piece is my interpretation of world affairs and personal differences. Everyday Magic shows a peaceful view of a room through a window looking in at some secret and exciting things in the room.

30 x 20" This work conveys the immense feelings you get when facing a difficult decision. Whether a life-altering choice or a simple dilemma - we get completely engrossed by it. A Mephistophelian depiction of these silhouetted rays is a harbinger of the imminent change. To make this photograph I used black paper (cutout rays ), gauge wire, tape and LED light box.

7.5 x 10.75" It's about time catalogs the journey of my friend as she succumbed to cancer. The handles clock has hours of, for example; 'Stroke', 'Chemotherapy', 'Cancer being held in check', Radiation. The swinging bear the words 'I know the cancer will take me, I just want some more time'. Bending light is inspired by one of the many dawns off my back porch looking east across the Salton Sea. These colors would be from a more humid summer morning, The haiku I wrote for and painted into it reads: Heat rises in waves Land warming sky, bending light into dizziness.