For Immediate Release
Contact: Sofia Blom | sblom@tephraica.org
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Marie B. Gauthiez: We Dwell in Between
February 27–June 29, 2025
Tephra ICA at Signature
 
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) presents We Dwell in Between, a solo-exhibition by Northern Virginia-based artist Marie B. Gauthiez, curated by Tephra ICA’s 2024 ArtTable Curatorial Fellow, Chenoa Baker. The exhibition is on view at the Tephra ICA at Signature gallery February 27–June 29, 2025, and features mixed media drawings, grid paintings, brick-sized wall fragments, and an immersive plaster wall installation. And opening reception and artist talk will he held on February 27, 6–8pm.
Gauthiez is a multi-disciplinary French American artist who makes work about mapping of the self, reconstruction, preservation, and identity. In this exhibition, she uses the house as a metaphor for the subconscious. The surfaces of her relief paintings are inspired by walls that show evolution, wear, and tear. Each wall is a chapter of a story with surfaces marking distinctive moments in time.
Marie received her MFA in Studio Art from American University in 2024. She is a faculty member at the Washington Studio School in Washington, DC. Recently, Marie co-curated the MFA invitational exhibition Holding Hands, Holding Space at the Katzen Center (Washington, DC). Marie participated in Art Night “Homegrown” at the National Gallery of Art in 2023. She was awarded the Interlude Residency Support Grant, the Van Swearingen Merit Award, the Catharina Baart Biddle Award, and the Carol Bird Ravenal Art Travel Award. Marie will head to Illinois in December 2025 for a residency at Ragdale.
Marie has exhibited in group shows at Stable Arts (Washington, DC), Soft Times Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Studio Gallery (Washington, DC), Brentwood Arts Exchange (Brentwoord, MD), the Anacostia Arts Center (Washington, DC), the Katzen Museum (Washington, DC), Blue Mountain Gallery (New York, NY), Pyramid Atlantic (Hyattsville, MD), First Street Gallery (New York, NY), and River Arts (SD). She exhibited at the Umbrella Art Fair (Washington, DC) last November as part of the Kinetic program of Hamiltonian Artists. Marie holds a BA in applied languages from the Université de Paris 10-Nanterre and an MA in Fashion Business from ESMOD Paris. She lives with her husband and two children in Northern Virginia.
 
 Tephra ICA at Signature, located at the Signature apartment building at 11850 Freedom Dr in Reston, Virgnia. This innovative satellite gallery space presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions featuring work by local and regional artists as selected by Tephra ICA curatorial staff. ​The gallery is provided in partnership with BXP and Bozzuto and generously supported by Reston Community Center.

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