SAXON

Artistic portfolio

Education

2021 Photography school Tsekh, course of Sergey Maximishin "Photographer as a Storyteller", Moscow Russia
2020 Alena Zhukova "Intro to Pro-Photo" online
2000 Moscow State Architectural Academy MFA Architecture, Moscow Russia
1994 Moscow State Children Art School #5, Moscow Russia

Awards

2024
Belfast Photo Festival 2024 (Shortlisted, project)
Fine Art Photography Awards FAPA (Nominee in Portrait category, single image)
Fine Art Photography Awards FAPA (Nominee in Conceptual Category, project)
2023
Russian Photo Awards (Top 100, single image)
All-Russian Festival of Black and White Photography Fotostrelka (Nominee, single image)
All-Russian Photo Project of Childhood (Finalist, single image)
2019
Grant for learning course of Sergey Maximishin “Photographer as a Storyteller”

Exhibitions

ON VIEW

May 3 - May 24, 2024 - "Portrait: Self and Others" at PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT USA

May 9 - June 16, 2024 - "View Finder" at ArtsWorcester Gallery, Worcester MA USA

UPCOMING

May 30, 2024 - "Lavish: Gallery Edition", Tenafly NJ USA

June 20 - July 28 - "30th Annual Members Exhibition" at Griffin Museum, Winchester MA USA

June, 2024 - "Cinematic Theme" at Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA USA

Sep 10 - Oct 3, 2024 - "Rozenman/Saxon/Lim Exhibition" at Hopkinton Arts Center, Hopkinton MA USA

PAST

April 2024 - "Dreams And Nightmares" at Boomer Gallery, London UK

Jan 2024 - "Together" at Warehouse X, Sommerville MA USA

Dec 2023 - Jan 2024 - "Let Me Be A Child", S.Petersburg Russia

Dec 2023 - "Fotostrelka" Festival of B&W Photography, Borovsk Russia

Nov 2023 - Dec 2023 - "Scaled Down" at ArtsWorcester Gallery, Worcester MA USA

Nov 2023 - "Artists For Israel", Tenafly, NJ USA

Sep 2023 - "StArt on the Street", Worcester MA USA

July 2023 - Aug 2023 - "The Eleventh Annual One" at ArtsWorcester Gallery, Worcester MA USA

June 2023 - Sep 2023 - "FAM's 87th Regional Exhibition" at Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA USA

Artist Statement

of Mari Saxon, photographer, artist, architect.

I always adore noticing the absurdity, surrealism in the everyday, as if reality lifts the edge of its curtain for me, and through this gap, I see the backstage of the scenery. It amuses, entertains, and astonishes me. Equally, I always observe the unnoticed unusual, individual facets in people around me. The intricacy of each person, the diversity of people fascinates me, and when I notice something special, I can't wait to capture it with my camera.

Gradually, I started creating an absurd reality in my photographs: my attic turns into a fairy-tale world, my models stand on their heads in high heeled boots, and me myself turn into multifaceted mythical figure in self-portraits.

My works are surreal, symbolic, fabulous, often absurd. At the same time, my photographs do not impose their own narrative, there is no obvious plot. Everyone can see their own story in them. And every interpretation pleases and surprises me. The most stirring goal for me is to engage the viewer in a dialogue through my art.

PROJECTS

The beauty in diversity

Burn Thriver

FAPA 2024 nominee in Portrait category

Otherworldly Family Album

Untold Fairytale

FAPA 2024 nominee in Conceptual category

Discarded Doll

Shortlisted by Belfast Photo festival 2024

As A New Way Of Feeling

Self Portraits

Graduation ball in a public school in USA