Ava Markle
Ava Markle
Ava Markle (b. 1998, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA at The Cooper Union in New York in 2021 and has since been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at Below Grand, New York, and Samuele Visentin, London.
Affronted with Ava Markle’s oil on clay board concoctions, it takes a second to decipher whether we’re looking at the movements of molten rock from a far out planet, or rather the veins and knots of a tree under the scrutiny of a microscope.
This feeling of ambiguity is what the young painter strives for. They’re neither figurative nor abstract. Tangible or immaterial. Rather, they speak to a landscape once experienced, notably the forests of upstate New York nearby Markle’s home. While further north, in Maine, Markle explored the branching tributaries of Nesowadnehunk Stream, a wilderness lake near the mountain ranges of Baxter State Park.
The stream’s branching tributaries and bifurcation have become a ubiquitous feature across Markle’s rust-toned paintings. Her frames brood with energy; some erupting with rage, others contained; slowly curdling.
Affronted with Ava Markle’s oil on clay board concoctions, it takes a second to decipher whether we’re looking at the movements of molten rock from a far out planet, or rather the veins and knots of a tree under the scrutiny of a microscope.
This feeling of ambiguity is what the young painter strives for. They’re neither figurative nor abstract. Tangible or immaterial. Rather, they speak to a landscape once experienced, notably the forests of upstate New York nearby Markle’s home. While further north, in Maine, Markle explored the branching tributaries of Nesowadnehunk Stream, a wilderness lake near the mountain ranges of Baxter State Park.
The stream’s branching tributaries and bifurcation have become a ubiquitous feature across Markle’s rust-toned paintings. Her frames brood with energy; some erupting with rage, others contained; slowly curdling.