Ava Ravich
Bio: Ava Ravich was born in 1994 in Los Angeles, California and lives and works in New York City. She is currently finishing her MFA in painting at Columbia University and prior to that received a degree in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College. Her paintings explore the notion of sentimentality and our relationship to it through the possession of keepsakes. Employing paint, collage, image transfers, and various other printing techniques, she creates paintings that fuse the memento with the events, places, and people that they provoke.
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Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Through painting, I examine the relationship between a memory and the physical remnants those memories become affixed to—the idea that an object can acquire sentiment. Sifting through spaces from my own childhood home and the events that occurred there, I combine painting with various printmaking techniques, elements of collage, and image transfers of family photos to create portraits of memories. Each portrait begins with an object from my own history, a memento from the home I grew up in, and through painting I intertwine that object with the memories affixed to it. The finished works appear worn and familiar, stains of old photos seeping into wood grain and thin washes of color interspersed with precise moments of paint. While the memories and keepsakes these works explore are my own, the sentiment they get at is not. It is human nature to attach memories to objects, as a way to keep them from fading, and it is this process, the transformation from an object to a keepsake that I investigate in my work.
L to R: Picture Frame 1–5, (9 1/2" x 6" x 2," Acrylic, image transfer, flashe, flocking on plywood, 2021); Picture Frame 1 & 2, (9 1/2" x 6" x 2," Acrylic, image transfer, flashe, flocking on plywood, 2021); Picture Frame 2, (9 1/2" x 6" x 2," Acrylic, image transfer, flashe, flocking on plywood, 2021); Picture Frame 4, (9 1/2" x 6" x 2," Acrylic, image transfer, flashe, flocking on plywood, 2021); The Family Room, (64" x 70" x 1," Acrylic, image transfer, flashe, flocking, colored pencil and collage on plywood, 2021)
First Year Exhibition
L to R: Installation view; Secret Garden, (20 x 24 in, Acrylic and pigment on wood panel, 2021); Sick Bed, (20 x 24 in, Collage, image transfer, acrylic, flashe, and pigment on wood panel, 2021); Sharks, (16 x 20 in, Collage, image transfer, and acrylic on wood panel, 2021); Overgrown, (16 x 20 in, Collage, image transfer, acrylic, and oil paint on canvas, 2020-21); Star Hill, (11 x 14 in, Image transfer, acrylic, polycrylic, and pigment on wood panel, 2021); n666q, (11 x 14 in, Collage, image transer, and acrylic on wood panel, 2020-21)
Open Studios
