Mixed media on paper
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(left) Randi Matushevitz, 2020, Is This It?, charcoal, pastel, spray paint on Arches watercolor paper, 10 x 14 in.
(right) Randi Matushevitz, 2020, Despondent Debbie, charcoal, pastel, spray paint on Arches watercolor paper, 12 x 12 in.
Live Feed ~ Monday, September 7th at 10:30 am @randimatushevitzartregarding her artwork featured in the group exhibition “Agent of Ordinary Pleasures” opening this Thursday, September 10th @thelodgela
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Randi Matushevitz’s mixed-media drawings reveal the haunting existence of what lies within our deepest truths. I was very excited to invite Randi to create a few new drawings based on a combination of her Urban Dilemmas and Ugly Portraits series.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sublime and grotesque, my artwork depicts the emotional frailty caused by the conundrums of experience, the hard stuff, the guttural, private, secret worlds that we don’t speak about, the ones that create traumas large and small. My vision is macabre, eerie with a sense of uncertainty, and quiet dread—the wear and tear of life as mirrored by a facial expression. These empathetic images are an offering of transposition, a substitution for the real horrors of the distressed. I consider my paintings realist in that they project an empathetic response to the trials of contemporary living, reliant on a type of human connection that exists in a silent inaudible understanding beyond gender, culture, religion, and language.
BIOGRAPHY
Randi Matushevitz is a figurative artist living and working in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Miami (UM). Her artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, cultural centers, universities, and museums; and art fairs nationally and internationally: New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Xalapa, and Jerusalem.
Recent exhibitions include Create and Collaborate, MOAH, Los Angeles (2020), Hobson’s Choice, TAM, Torrance (2020), Future Gaze: Justin Bower and Randi Matushevitz, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA (2019), We Are Humanity, Giudecca Arts District, Venice, Italy and Highlights from the Permanent Collection at Museum of Art and History Lancaster, CA. Matushevitz has been interviewed by Maeve Doyle, BBC correspondent, A Private View, Soho Radio, London (2020), published in Contemporary Art Curator, Riot Material, Whitehot Magazine, the Huffington Post, Art and Cake. Matushevitz' work is collected publicly and privately in the US and Abroad: Museum of Art and History -Lancaster, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain Center – Las Vegas and the Barrick Art Museum (Las Vegas Art Museum Collection) UNLV and the Enter Art Foundation -Berlin.
https://www.randimatushevitz.com | @randimatushevitzart