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Kara Maria’s work examines the conflict between humans and wildlife. Her miniature portraits of endangered species within a context of chaotic shapes and exploding colors contemplate environmental displacement, instability, and extinction. The swirling and exploding shapes, bright colors, representational elements, and unlikely spatial relationships of the greater painting illustrate how our progressively chaotic environment is displacing fauna and the systems that support it.

Though her paintings shed light on Earth’s biodiversity crisis, one could describe them as “out of this world.” Her …