AVA FEDOROV

My paintings embrace the necessary diametric experience of nature and climate cataclysm in order to offer pathways of understanding, collective mourning, and reevaluation. I use lyricism and abstraction to conjure the inverted pain of only realizing the vast importance of something (in this case, life on earth as we know it) the moment it vanishes. The fragmentation of this awareness is demonstrated in the physical and implied layering. Embedded topographies portray the concept of landscape as both the historical and emotional embodiment of anthropogenic damage. Looming shadows, ghost formations, cascading light, and torn paper cutouts conjure entities that are diachronically expressed—still fathomable and tangible while also being irretrievably lost. 

BIO

Ava Fedorov is a Honolulu-based visual artist and writer who is originally from a remote region of Upstate New York. With a background that also includes design and film, she pulls from all realms of her creative knowledge to portray disappearing wilderness, haunted geographies, and the connection between internal and external landscapes. Ava’s work has been exhibited, collected, and published internationally and she has been honored to collaborate with artists, art residencies, and institutions across the world. Ava is a two-time John Young Scholar in the Arts awardee and her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a PEN America Award. She teaches studio art at Hawaii Pacific University and is the founder and president of CICADA (the logo is her artwork).

See more at avafedorov.com or @avaglows