The centripetal focus around my practice is the experience of space, both mentally and physically. I’m interested in architecture’s ability to evoke, compel, and empathize and through that interest I construct my own metaphysical, labyrinthine spaces, in an emotive fashion referential to Piranesi. A fundamental part of my work is the dichotomies that are within; a sensitivity of touch with moments of aggression and boldness, a feeling of liminality while being grounded, where the gestural and natural meet the structural and are obliterated, in a space that is both navigable but inescapable.
DOUNIA BENDRIS
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b. Orlando, FL 1992
Currently residing in New York, New York
EDUCATION:
2016-2019 MFA in Drawing, Hunter College, New York, NY
2014 BFA in Drawing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Estrutura, Superfun Site at Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
2015 Tecumseh Valley, Superfun Site at Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
Sweltering Misery Pt. 1, Superfun Site at Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
Threadpit and Friends, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
2014 Creature, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
Distorted Realities, The Wooly, Gainesville, FL
Mass 4, The Wooly, Gainesville, FL
Unjuried Show, Convergence Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Teaser, Warphaus, Gainesville, FL
2013 Quarantined, Reitz Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Unconventional Portraiture, Convergence Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Narrative Strategies Showcase, Warphaus, Gainesville, FL
Just Cats, Reitz Gallery, Gainesville, FL
INTERNSHIPS/EXPERIENCE:
2015 Gallery Protocol Intern, Gainesville, FL
2014-2016 Artist Assistant to Lisa Iglesias, Gainesville, FL
2014 FLA Gallery Intern, Gainesville, FL
HONORS/AWARDS
2014 The Rita McTigue O'Connell Scholarship
2010-2014 Florida Bright Futures Scholarship, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL