Artist Statement
My work is an embodiment of my emotions constrained in neat, orderly lines. This representation of emotion through a hard edge painting style is a commentary on society’s expectation that emotions need to be tidied up into an acceptable output. The resulting artwork is feelings too big for the “normalized” world 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.
