Margaret Inga Urías | Of Cloud & Ash: Eons, Epochs, and Eras

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
– John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

Margaret Inga Urías’s series Of Cloud & Ash: Eons, Epochs, and Eras delves into the vastness of time through works on paper and glass. Drawing on research from planetary geology, evolutionary biology, and cosmology, Urías explores the origins and endings of the universe, and the interconnectedness of all things across time. This body of work contends with the fragility and impermanence of existence, seeking to map the passage of dust and rock through the evolution of Earth and the cosmos. Using black ink and a minimalist vocabulary of graphic dots, lines, and circles, Urías traces the cosmic cycles that define our reality, rendering the transition from nothingness to life and back again. Her work is a meditation on loss, the eerie nature of time, and the paradox of its vastness and brevity.

Margaret Inga Urías is an interdisciplinary artist based in Scarsdale, NY, whose practice encompasses drawing, murals, photography, and glass engraving. Her work is deeply rooted in exploring the concepts of time, evolution, and the cosmos, often reflecting on the transient and fragile nature of existence. Urías has received several prestigious awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds degrees from Barnard College and Pratt Institute and has participated in residencies at the Saltonstall Foundation and the Bronx Museum of Art’s AIM program. Her work has been exhibited widely, and she continues to push the boundaries of her practice, integrating research from planetary geology, evolutionary biology, and cosmology into her artistic explorations​