MAYA PEREZ-LUGONES

The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art presents the first solo exhibition of artwork by Maya Perez-Lugones. The exhibited drawings and paintings explore the complicated relationship between ego, compulsion, and empathy. Perez-Lugones’ layered compositions reflect the artist’s “obsessive desire to control reality and confront [her] own sense of victimhood. Each piece becomes a therapeutic space where [she] examine[s] perception, responsibility, and the shifting roles of victim and perpetrator.”

Maya Perez-Lugones was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in 2000. Before graduating from Georgia State University as an artist in 2024, she went to Utah State University, studying Biology pre-med in 2019. Currently, she attends the University of Arkansas, expecting to graduate with her MFA in painting in 2028.

Select exhibitions include an upcoming exhibition at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art in Marietta, Georgia, in January 2026. In addition, a juried exhibition, The Power of Color, at the Maryland Federation of Art in Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland, in 2025. In 2024, she was awarded the Nancy Goyer Endowed Scholarship and the Fogg Scholarship award from GSU in Atlanta, Georgia, for drawing and painting.

In her current works, she photographs herself as an unidentifiable character surrounded by plastic and manipulates those references into paintings or drawings. The plastic distorts the character, abstracting the background and the figure, making her art a catalyst for personal reflection.

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Cover image: Maya Perez-Lugones, Guest Bathroom: Mouth, oil on canvas, 2024