Paintings by Mariana Durst

ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN

Paintings by Mariana Durst

ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN

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we always remember the battles, but we never remember the balm

The feminine Repose series

In a world that glorifies the fight and the glory, this series reflects on the moments of exhale women have between courage, resilience, and the holding of it all.

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Open Wide
Open Wide
$150.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 10" x 8"

  • Frame: Unframed

About this piece

When my nervous system starts sprinting, I go somewhere very specific: flat on the ground, eyes to the sky, letting the whole wide world do what my brain can't—just be still for a second.

Open Wide is that place, painted.

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Rest Intervals
Rest Intervals
$150.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 10" x 8"

  • Frame: Unframed

About this piece

There's a version of strength nobody photographs: the pause. We tend to focus on the medal at the end of the finish line, but this painting is about the breath in between reps, when the body hasn't decided yet whether it can keep going.

I painted Rest Intervals after watching Natalie Anderson grind her way through her ordeal in Survivor Winners at War (yes, huge Survivor fan over here), and I couldn't stop thinking about those in-between moments when she made the decision to keep going, despite the physical, emotional, and mental toll it took.

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Ride or Die
Ride or Die
$200.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 12" x 9"

  • Frame: Unframed

About this piece

Some of the best therapists have four legs and no opinions about your questionable choices.

This painting is about the ones who show up without an agenda, to comfort without commentary, and love without conditions, the kind of nervous-system reset a one can only aspire to.

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Holding It All
Collected
Holding It All
$200.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 8" x 8"

  • Frame: Natural maple floater frame

About this piece

Some comforts exist nowhere else. The shelter of a mother's arms. The familiar weight of a child held close.

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Abstract Landscapes

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Glen Coe View No. 1
Glen Coe View No. 1
$200.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 8" x 8"

  • Frame: Natural maple floater frame

About this piece

Geometry over realism, color over caution.

This painting is my geometric, brightly-colored argument that a landscape can be true to how a place felt without needing to be true to how it photographs.

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Glen Coe View No. 2
Glen Coe View No. 2
$200.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 8" x 8"

  • Frame: Natural maple floater frame

About this Piece

Geometry over realism, color over caution.

This painting is my geometric, brightly-colored argument that a landscape can be true to how a place felt without needing to be true to how it photographs.

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Lakeshore No. 1
Collected
Lakeshore No. 1
$135.00

  • Media: Acrylic and artist crayon

  • Surface: Cradled panel

  • Dimensions: 5" x 7"

  • Frame: Natural maple floater frame

ABOUT THIS PIECE:

Somewhere along a Lake Superior shoreline, I learned that watching a long horizon is its own kind of medicine.

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Close-up portrait of a person with long, dark, curly hair and light skin, looking directly at the camera.

mariana durst

American, Mexican-born, 1980—

Mariana Durst is a contemporary painter whose practice moves fluidly between abstraction and representation.

Her work is guided by sustained observation: the study of light, color, and atmosphere. Each painting serves as both record and inquiry—a document of looking closely and a reminder that curiosity often leads further than certainty.

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