bio
Ava finds inspirations in common rural scenes. She's a hard-edge representational artist who works in all pain mediums, but prefers acrylic. Most influenced by her lifelong work at her parent's restaurant, Ava is drawn to kitchens, laborers, and everyday people. Ava graduated from Bowdoin College in 2020 and resides in Maine and New Hampshire. She has been coaching mountain biking and teaching art for the past four years.
statement
Labor is often concealed—behind walls, by systems that thrive off of its hiddenness, in plain sight when we choose not to see it. It is easy for the products we encounter to become deeply impersonal in this process, to ignore that mastership and hours that go into an object. Highlighting labor as a craft and exposing it as something we consider often, considering the hands who have labored over the thing we consume is my goal. The acknowledgment of the human aspects we engage with, and rekindling human interaction by overriding the erasure of labor that our society falls victim to. My work is not only about the consumer, though. It is about the meditation and absorption of the laborer in the piece.
reciprocity
Folks represented in Ava's works are real life people. Some are friends, coworkers, collectors, and many are strangers. All willingly are photographed and are part of the artist process. They each receive a print of the painting upon completion, and, if the painting is sold, are given a percentage of the profits.