Marina Doukas is a Canadian painter whose work is often colourful and vibrant and ranges from being thick and chaotic to blended and controlled. Her paintings explore themes of self-expression, perception, and the idiosyncrasies of identity by bringing together abstract mark-making and contemporary portraiture. Pulling from her knowledge of gesture and abstraction, she treats the paint as a tool to record her experiences with navigating femininity and all of the moments of tension and discovery that may present themselves along the way. With the use of bright colours and various brush strokes, her paintings act as an ongoing investigation of individuality and prioritize authenticity and assertiveness of self through her explorations.
Marina Doukas obtained her Bachelor of Arts, Honours in Studio Arts at the University of Guelph.
Marina is currently practicing on traditional Haudenosaunee (Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga) Territory. Acknowledging this traditional territory is to recognize it’s longer history and it’s significance for Indigenous peoples who lived and are currently living upon it.