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Mariah is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator living in Northern California. 

Selected Clients

High Country News, Comstock's Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento News & Review, L'Atelier Insights, Longreads.com

Abbreviated CV

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024    Mountain View Art & Wine Festival, Mountain View, California, (curated by               Lisa Jones) 

           Chalk Full of Fun, Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, Redwood City,                 California, (curated by Lisa Jones) 

           Chalk Art Festival, City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California,                       (curated by Lisa Jones)

           I Madonarri Street Painting Festival, Children’s Creative Project, Santa                     Barbara, California, (sponsored by Pulverman & Pulverman)

           Lodi Italian Festival, professional street painter, Lodi, California, (curated by             Clifton Gold)

2023    Chalk Full of Fun, Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, Redwood                         City, California (curated by Lisa Jones) 

           Reno Chalk Art & Music Festival, Reno, Nevada (juried)

           Chalk It Up, Sacramento, California, (sponsored by MK Library)

           Lodi Italian Festival, professional street painter, Lodi, California, (curated by             Clifton Gold)

2022    Chalk Full of Fun, Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, Redwood City,                 California (curated by Lisa Jones) 

           Chalk It Up, Sacramento, California, (sponsored by MK Library)

           Lodi Italian Festival, professional street painter, Lodi, California, (curated by             Clifton Gold)

2021     Rocklin Fine Arts Juried Art Show, juried by Gayle Rappaport Weiland,                     Rocklin, California 

           Chalk It Up, Sacramento, California, (sponsored by MK Library)

2019     Foresthill Community Art Show, Foresthill, California

2018     Ridley Gallery Student Art Exhibition, Rocklin, California, (juried)

2013     UC Davis Undergraduate Research and Activities Conference, UC Davis,                 Davis, California

2012     Foresthill Community Art Show, Foresthill, California

 

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

 

2024     Full-page magazine illustration, “Remembering Colleen McElroy, the ‘literary              North Star’ of the Pacific               

            Northwest”, High Country News, October, 

            Private commission, Ghost Horse, 2’ x 2’ painting, acrylic and resin on glass                panel, Auburn, California

            Full-page magazine illustration, “Fly Like an Eagle”, Comstock’s Magazine,                April, 62-63. 

2023     Multi-page magazine illustration package, “In the Neighborhood: Where to                Live, Work and Play”, Explore 

            Sacramento: Guest and Relocation Guide, January, 38-43.

            Full-page magazine illustration, “Yosemite in the Spring”, Sacramento                        Magazine, May, 36.

            Magazine cover typography & illustration, “12 Ways to Go Green”,                            Sacramento Magazine, June, 1.

            Full-spread magazine illustration, “Summer Reading with High Country                      News”, High Country News, June

2022     Magazine spot illustrations, “Monthly Memberships for Wellness”,                              Sacramento Magazine, September, 20-21.

2021      Full-spread magazine illustration, “Rise and Shine”, Comstock’s Magazine,                  March, 62-63.

            Suspension shop logo design, Full Flow Suspension, Auburn, CA

2020     Magazine cover illustration, “Natural Wine: The Next Big Thing”,                              Sacramento Magazine, September, 1.

            Grocery store logo design, Worton’s Market, Foresthill, CA

            Chapbook cover illustration, “Black Under”, Ashanti Anderson, 1.

2019      Documentary poster illustration, “Last Wild Bison”, The Redford Center

2018      Six-page magazine illustration spread, “Fall Arts and Entertainment ”,                      Sacramento Magazine, October, 17-22.

2017      Private portrait commission, 24” x 32” painting, oil on canvas, Washington                  D.C. 

Artist Statement

Mariah Quintanilla is an interdisciplinary artist based in Auburn, California. She is largely recognized for her editorial illustrations and detailed, energetic street chalk paintings. While Mariah's chalk drawings and illustrations often lean toward hyperrealism, her recent glass paintings are more symbolic and free-flowing.

 

At her family's residential glass shop in Auburn, she developed a multi-layered approach to painting that involves using various glass paints on thick back-painted glass panels, followed by a coating of epoxy resin, dye, and mica powder. Flowing lines and complex swirling patterns are often present in Mariah’s glass works. The resulting pieces are unique among most painted-glass, stained-glass, or fused-glass artwork.

 

With degrees in entomology and scientific journalism, Mariah has found herself on multiple career paths throughout her life. She has interned in operating rooms, run medical clinics in Guatemala, sorted beetles in forestry labs, and written for a science magazine in Washington D.C. Her unquenchable curiosity and experimental attitude fuel her artistic endeavors today.

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