Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present All I Hear Is the Symphony, Ava McDonough‘s debut solo exhibition. The gallery hosted an opening art party on November 18, 2023. However the exhibition runs through January 20, 2024.
Lowell Ryan Projects Ava McDonough
McDonough is a 24-year-old, self-taught artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Comprised of paintings, sculpture, and video, the exhibition explores depictions of recollections, illusions, and dreams through the artist’s unique process that simultaneously fades and expands as time progresses. All I Hear Is the Symphony endeavors to create systems to remember while also understanding the temporal and relational aspects of memory and its effect on our psyche.
The Artwork
Utilizing an ever-expanding symbolic language of imagery drawn from the artist’s subconscious, McDonough creates monochromatic collages out of linocut prints. These linocut prints form the basis of her painting process. A routine of intensive writing and meditation inspires the artist. This allows her to channel the information for her drawings, which she then carves into linoleum blocks. These figurative depictions encompass a rich mixture of her current enthusiasms—stories, dreams, nightmares, people, places, and objects—and capture her emotional state towards them as vestiges.
Ava McDonough, I, As a Sky-Painting Journeyman (detail), 2023
By the repeated process of printing on paper, the blocks gradually deteriorate, resulting in imagery of varying saturation and symbolizing our relationship to memory—sometimes intensely vivid and other times as if slowly erased. These prints are then used to form elaborate collages that are emblems of a continuous process containing encounter and resolution, suffering and exhilaration, tragedy and comedy through a pictorial field that references a form of storytelling. The ensuing works are both highly personal in nature while encompassing the universality and absurdity of the human experience.
November 18, 2023 – January 20, 2024
What: All I Hear Is the Symphony, Ava McDonough’
Where: Lowell Ryan Projects, 4619 W Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016
When: Running through January 20, 2024
Website: https://www.lowellryanprojects.com/
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