To encounter Maria Aparici’s latest collection is to step into a battlefield where the canvas itself becomes the site of rebellion. This award-winning artist, whose roots trace back to Valencia—the land that birthed the great Joaquín Sorolla—uses her oil-on-canvas works to shatter conventions, challenging both aesthetic traditions and the cultural mores that define femininity in the modern world. Aparici's lineage and formal education, enriched by a sojourn in the United States, lend her work a striking duality: it is both a nod to classical mastery and a bold march into uncharted territories of abstraction, expressionism, and feminist ideology.

In Maria Aparici Vives’s work, one notes a distant but suggestive pictorial connection with her grand-uncle, Manuel Benedito Vives (1875-1963), a painter of the Valentian school, especially in her female portraits in which each artist articulates a certain concept of style in accordance with the nomenclatures and vicissitudes of his/her time. One might argue that what is in him an orthodox and sober characterization of bodies and atmospheres, Aparici’s work sets an expressionist and algid formulation of this same gender in boiling gestures, streaks, expressions and colors. They indicate an evolutionary tendency which leaves the eye with a creative vitalism in the times of different generations. Gregorio Vigil-Escalera (Spanish art critic).