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  • Maya Muñoz, Happiness, 2021, acrylic on paper, 18 × 22 1⁄2".

    Maya Muñoz, Happiness, 2021, acrylic on paper, 18 × 22 1⁄2".

    Maya Muñoz

    The Drawing Room Contemporary Art

    It is through the mundane and the intimate that Maya Muñoz’s art invites enchantment. Her exhibition “Stills from a Year of Living Dangerously” presented more than one hundred acrylic paintings on paper produced during the pandemic: silhouettes of landscapes, beaches, bodies of water; portraits; and scenes of empty spaces where people usually gather.

    In Happiness (all works 2021), we got a full view of an abandoned tennis court; behind it is a fenced-off area with a faded mural emblazoned with the word HAPPINESS. In two works titled Open Court, we saw other empty tennis courts enclosed by fences,

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