Portraits

Maite comes from another planet where they make people like her. She is a giant energy ball all the time. I am a Miami native with all my fingers and toes and then some.

Landscapes

You seem to be one of those multi-talented creative people who are totally unafraid to try new things. Of all the things you do, what would you say was your first love and how did the other projects evolve from that?

-Colleen Douger, Artepillar

Installations

Posh Punk

Presque Vu

The band has played in Miami for years and has always been active in the local art and music scene. They’ve always extended a helping hand to upcoming bands and artists.

-Tuffgnarl

Plants &

Animals

It’s a bit daunting to see how many plates Maite has spinning at once, in between frequent performances with her band, Maite curates art shows, records bands, and makes her own art work.

-Fvck The Media

Space Tabs

Urrechaga didn’t know why she would need them, but accepted the bag, anyway. A week later, Jane Hart, the curator of the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, told her about Adaptation, a show featuring found-object artworks.

-NBC Miami

When Baselphrenia grips the Big Orange each year, the moonberries creep out of the woodwork, eager to add some homespun flair to the planet's greatest arts confab.....

But Maite Josune froze traffic on NW Second Avenue and 23rd Street in Wynwood during the fair with her car-wreck-cum-jungle installation, which she christened "Mind the Snails.

-Miami New Times

One of THL’s favorite married couples, who you may also know as rockers Pocket of Lollipops Maitejosune Urrechaga and Tony Kapel were selected to decorate a 7-foot sculpture of a glamorous gator.

-The Heat Lightning

Nonagon Heirloom

Consider the description of her art that appears on the Web site for the artists collective Rasa Productions. "My artwork represents what my mind is thinking when things collide and become part of you," she writes. "Much of my work intertwines real subjects with floating shapes, bubble or lines. This usually puts the subject in an outer space or dreamlike place."