Bio
As Eye See It (she/they)
I find myself fascinated by the blurring of the line between dream and reality. I want to recreate the feelings from a moment in time and bring life to them again through my surrealistic subject matter. I am driven by love and fear, the two most powerful human emotions. These serve as a symbol of my struggles of where the battle of the heart and brain begins and so is the spark of the duality in my works. I have been interested in this dualism, incorporating the relationship between logic and creativity as I/Eye see it. My eye is a shutter that captures images of what becomes a photographic memory. My mind is a lens, as sharp as my ideas coming to life. My soul is the canvas, each color representing the emotions that I feel. I have a heart of an artist and my heart is in every work that I do.
Marie Monavic Elloso also known by her artist name, As Eye See It is a QueerPOC Printmaker and Mixed Media artist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Art in Art - Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking. Elloso’s key theme is surrealism, she mainly uses the method of relief and intaglio. In relief, she specializes in the technique of woodcut and linocut. In intaglio, Elloso specializes more in etching, drypoint, and aquatint. She is familiar with other intaglio techniques such as lithography and silkscreen printing. Elloso has been part of several exhibitions, such as; Apocalyptic Paradise of the Salton Sea, The Shape of Things, HERstory, the 47th Annual Student Art Exhibition, and Anthro-Obscene to name a few. In 2018, her most notable project/show is an exhibition she curated, HERstory. It featured 18 women artists including herself, advocating feminism and women empowerment. Each artist offered their own perspective stories and inspired a dialogue of their experiences that was expressed through a range of mediums. In 2019, Elloso also curated Apocalyptic Paradise of the Salton Sea. She has a passion for curating and loves the process, especially the design and installation. Curating is what she hopes to do more in the near future.
For three years, from 2019-2021, Elloso participated in Inktober. In 2020, she took part in the first annual Suicide Prevention Print Exchange and Online Exhibition with her linocut print called, Live which was chosen by a jury of Riverside Art Museum. She is also part of a publication released by The Little Gallery of San Bernardino, called Mosaic – A Collection of Art & Writings from San Bernardino which included four of her artworks. Elloso was also on the cover of the Issue 39 launch, Rebirth: Between What Was and What Is.
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In 2023, after a year of hiatus, Elloso was inspired in starting her own clothing brand. Androgynous + Urban Street Wear, merging her artworks into design.