Marina Pannunzio - Visual Artist
Marina Pannunzio is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) student currently in her third year of the Visual Arts program at the University of Windsor. Working in painting, drawing, and mixed media, her practice explores abstraction through references to the human body. She incorporates materials intentionally as part of her conceptual process, using texture, layering, and mark-making to reflect bodily presence, movement, and form. Influenced by both nature and human anatomy, her work examines the relationship between physical materials and embodied experience.
Contact: marinapannunzio3@gmail.com
Works
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Nymphaea caerulea
Mixed media on paper
22”x30”
This work emerged from studying a dried Blue Lotus flower through a smartphone microscope, revealing intricate textures and details not visible to the naked eye. These microscopic observations informed an abstract composition combining painting, drawing, collage, and the flower itself, resulting in the creation of an imaginative ecosystem.
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Nocturna
Oil on canvas
12”x12”
Nocturna was created through plein air painting from life, recording light and natural surroundings while allowing intuition and creativity to guide the process. The work combines observation with imagination and an interest in what exists beyond what is immediately visible.
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Where Smoke Becomes Space
Mixed media on paper and mylar
30”x40”
Inspired by a wildfire map of Alberta, this abstract work translates geographic data into a lived, bodily experience. Rather than describing space, the piece embodies it, treating it as something internalized.
Space is felt differently by each body, yet wildfires smoke crosses provincial boundaries and affects people far from the site of the fires. The work considers how environmental events alter our physical relationship to land and space.