PAEPIR Studio
Paintings at the meeting point of Jewish memory and California light — Torah narratives set back in motion, Hebrew letters loosed as landscapes, cities caught mid-story.
View the work ↓The Crossing · acrylic on canvas · 36 × 48 in
The oldest stories never stopped moving — a sea mid-split, a letter mid-flame, a city mid-sentence. I paint to catch them in motion. Every original leaves my studio hand-stamped PAEPIR.
Thirty-four originals in acrylic on canvas and wood — from a pomegranate you could hold in one hand to a coastline seven feet wide. Dimensions are approximate; click any piece to inquire.
Marie Plevy is a California painter whose work braids Jewish tradition with the candor and wit of pop art. Trained at UC Santa Barbara, she paints in acrylic on canvas and wood from her studio in Santa Cruz.
In her Judaica, the Torah is living material: a scroll unrolls and the Red Sea parts inside it; the Shekhinah burns above a menorah in letters of flame; Tutankhamun stares down a wall of Hebrew repeating, with a survivor's wry patience, we outlasted Pharaoh — we will outlast this too. Around these gather her California streets and coastlines, portraits in affectionate homage to Botero, and abstractions built from single Hebrew letters, monumental even at eleven inches.
The through-line is reverence without solemnity: paintings that take their inheritance seriously enough to play with it.
Originals are available directly from the studio. For pricing, framing, commissions, or a viewing in Santa Cruz, write —
studio@paepir.com