Noelia Farías
Argentine, b. 1978
A la espera (Waiting), 2012
Oil on canvas
38 3/4 x 59 in
2015.1.2
Gift of the artist and Dean Jensen Gallery
Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
http://museum.marquette.edu/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=7889&viewType=detailView

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Noelia Farías was born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1978, and currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. Farías’s surrealist paintings emphasize nature and emit a sense of silence and timelessness.  Young girls with vacant faces occupy the foregrounds of her works, while the backgrounds—which often feature recognizable geographic landscapes—fades away. She describes her work as an exploration of “surrealist ideas, myths, and stories that we add to everyday life.” Farías is a member of Argentina’s Artistas en Cooperative, whose work was featured in the exhibition “Lejos” at the Dean Jensen Gallery in 2014. The artists’ collective visited the Haggerty as a part of their trip to Milwaukee for that exhibition and five works, including waiting, were gifted to the museum at that time.