Offshore
Maura Brewer is a video artist with essayistic, research-driven projects that critique the relationship between feminism and capitalism.
Artist BioOffshore is an essay video and performance that documents the process of laundering money through art acquisition. The video follows artist Maura Brewer’s actions as she sets up a series of nested shell corporations in international finance centers, through which she will ultimately purchase and resell an artwork. Offshore combines performance documentation, interviews, and diagrammatic animations to explore each stage of the money laundering cycle. This performance will form the basis of an essay video that explores the dematerialization of art and money.
Maura Brewer: Offshore premiered from March 30–April 25, 2024 at The Canary Test, Los Angeles, CA.
Creative Capital Carnival 2022
Offshore was formerly titled Private Client Services.
Events
Maura Brewer: Offshore
March 30–April 25, 2024
The Canary Test
526 E 12th St C, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Maura Brewer
Los Angeles, CA
Maura Brewer is a video artist with essayistic, research-driven projects that critique the relationship between feminism and capitalism. Brewer received her undergraduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her MFA from UC Irvine and she was a Whitney Independent Study Program fellow from 2014-2015. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Art in General in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in Geneva, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein in Vienna, Biquini Wax in Mexico City, and Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway. Her work has received press coverage in The Paris Review, CBS News, The Guardian and CBC’s The Current. She is a recipient of the LENS Photography Council Award at LACMA, the Philadelphia Area Community Collaboratives fellowship at Haverford College, the Creative Economic Development Fund at CCI, the Fellowship for Visual Arts at CCF, and is a 2021 COLA Master Artist fellow. In addition to her visual art, she works as a private investigator.
Events
- Maura Brewer: Leverage October 19–November 16, 2024
- Maura Brewer: Offshore March 30–April 25, 2024