MAUREEN SEEBA

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Maureen Seeba launched her career as an artist in the late 1980s focusing on the plight of hostages in Lebanon and Iran. Her work received much acclaim, including a feature in a CBS documentary intent on bringing much needed attention to the situation at hand.

A triptych of Seeba's, featuring head paintings of hostages, is now displayed at the Chicago Peace Museum.

After attending the University of Houston, Seeba received a full merit scholarship at the Glassell School of Fine Art in Houston, Texas.

During the early 1990s, Seeba found herself compelled by movement. She observed the fluid motion of rollercoasters and began reading about particle physics.

Her work, influenced by what she read, was displayed at an International Astroparticle Physics Symposium at the Houston Advanced Research Center in 1993, and subsequent exhibitions in Greece, where she was further influenced by Mediterranean art, specifically mosaics.

Having received numerous grants, she travelled throughout much of Greece and Turkey, exhibiting her work and creating collages from various materials and etchings.

Seeba began to develop Steel Mosaics™ while she was working on a series of artist books and etchings during the mid 1990s.

The technical and physical processes of etching and bookmaking required multiple steps and layers. Seeba wanted to accentuate the layering process in her work while making a painting that could be touched and changed.

Seeba's Steel Mosaics™ are composed of various tiles and panels, encaustic on metal and mounted on wooden frames. The tiles are placed upon the panels or even upon other tiles. The versatility and expandability of the panels and tiles can be altered like tangible computer windows or they can remain fixed like pieces of a mosaic.