{"id":25598,"date":"2026-08-27T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=25598"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:08:55","slug":"maia-cruz-palileo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/maia-cruz-palileo\/","title":{"rendered":"Maia Cruz Palileo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Maia Cruz Palileo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Portrait of the artist by Mary Inhea Kang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(<\/span>b. 1979, Chicago) creates paintings, works on paper, installations, and sculptures that honor familial archives and imagined contemporary realities. Beginning from a space of personal inquiry around their family\u2019s migration from the Philippines to America, Palileo quickly uncovered the immense connective points between individual histories and broader global systems, like colonization, displacement, assimilation, and the Philippine\u2013American War.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The artist\u2019s research into overlapping historical timelines, paired with the transmutational effects of memory, provides a framework for their color-rich compositions. This overlapping is made physical through the layering of oil paint, which\u2014even in instances where one layer is concealed by another\u2014permanently maintains its material presence on the canvas, creating its own recorded history.\u00a0While painting has been at the center of the artist\u2019s practice in recent years, Palileo utilizes their background as a sculptor to incorporate hands-on processes, from mixing their own paints, to making cardstock cutouts of drawings, and incorporating collage techniques to create preparatory sketches. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
By obscuring horizon lines and vanishing points, their paintings emphasize the densely varied landscapes\u2014mountains, forests, bodies of water\u2014present in the Philippines, while simultaneously foregrounding the figures represented in these archival materials and imbuing them with care, dignity, and presence of spirit that is often flattened in a photographic archive. For Palileo, these parallel modes of research open up narrative possibilities and account for some of the somatic information that gets lost to time and distance, filling in the gaps that emerge when people and families migrate outside of their ancestral land.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Maia Cruz Palileo Once Again There Was No Time, 2026 oil on linen 80 x 83 inches (203.2 x 210.8 cm) Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Maia Cruz Palileo Ulit Ulit (Again and Again), 2026 oil on linen 77 x 98 x 1 1\/2 inches (195.6 x 248.9 x 3.8 cm) Photo: Christopher Stach. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Maia Cruz Palileo Makiling The Restless Mountain, 2026 oil on linen 82 x 107 x 1 1\/2 inches (208.3 x 271.8 x 3.8 cm) Photo: Christopher Stach\u00a0 Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maia Cruz Palileo Portrait of the artist by Mary Inhea Kang (b. 1979, Chicago) creates paintings, works on paper, installations, and sculptures that honor familial archives and imagined contemporary realities. Beginning from a space of personal inquiry around their family\u2019s migration from the Philippines to America, Palileo quickly uncovered the immense connective points between individual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25628,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25598\/revisions\/25628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}