BIOGRAPHY
Ava Lauryn first found inspiration in Coraline (the film and graphic novel), and later, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, and Studio Ghibli’s (Spirited Away) anime. Since aged three, she has recreated scenes on paper and on the skin by hand-molding fleshy silicon prosthetics, complete with blood and gore, and by aged seven was creating makeshift costumes made of common household goods, repurposed, styled and painted. In middle school, she began creating sequential comics to illustrate the passing of her days in homeschool. Ava continued to work with various mediums through her tweens: digital, clay, pencil, and oil on canvas. A teenaged newcomer, Ava Lauryn is a caregiver and self-taught artist.
ARTIST
STATEMENT
Combining abstract imagery, and mixed media—photographs, film, and digital renderings—Ava Lauryn blends the haze and consequence of history—of memory—and the fractured nature of our present. She brings together time and motion, seemingly distorting reality through a combination of hyper realism, deliberate glitches and blurs, in the artistic traditions of the soft-focus oil paintings of South African artist Philip Barlow and Swiss artist, Andy Denzler.
Pushing boundaries between abstraction and photorealism, Ava Lauryn elevates our fragmented identities, an alternative to our often “over-glossed” reality, creating instead honest, intimate moments on the page that tell stories.
