Marissa Lazaridis is a visual artist raised in Queens, New York. Her instinct to create began at the age of five, sitting beside her father as he sketched blueprints. Copying his lines became her first act of self-recognition.

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She was introduced to art through discipline before freedom, learning how to observe, render, and refine, and carried that sensitivity into a degree in architecture. Today, freedom is her medium. She creates by following what demands to be translated. 

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Her practice centers around oil painting and extends into drawing and long-form written reflection. Each piece begins with a narrative, emotion, memory, or dream that surfaces quietly and asks to be witnessed and translated into form. Through her writing, she explores the "backstage," a term she uses to describe her inner world and interior process that precedes the image.

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Working from silence and deep sacral response, she creates for those who move slowly, love deeply, and sense the weight of impermanence within beauty. Her work is a record of what has been felt but could not always be said.