Artist Statement
My work uses color to evoke emotional response, while geometric design organizes those emotions into structured forms, reflecting society’s tendency to seek order in emotional expression. The use of a hard-edge painting style mirrors the rigidity of these societal expectations. The resulting artwork is a capture of feelings too big to be acceptable, packaged as organized linear patterns.
I hope that those moved by my art will feel the emotional force behind the work and allow it to be a conduit to reconnect with their own expression of emotion.
About the Artist
Ashley Ravidas is an emerging artist located in Los Angeles California, working in acrylic paint on canvas and paper. She has taken a sabbatical from a decade-long consulting career to pursue art.
Her art is geometric and uses optical illusions or gradients of color to create a feeling of movement and is a contemporary twist on the hard edge art movement of the 1960’s and 70’s.
