Randi Matushevitz is a figurative artist living and working in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Art from California State University Northridge (CSUN), and 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, Buenos Aires, Xalapa, Jerusalem and Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Create and Collaborate, MOAH, Los Angeles (2020), Hobson's Choice, Torrance Art Museum, (TAM, 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. Interview with Maeve Doyle, BBC Correspondent, on A Private View, Soho Radio , London (2020). Her work has been 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 Institute – Las Vegas and the Barrick Art Museum ( Las Vegas Art Museum Collection) UNLV and the Enter Art Foundation -Berlin.
Statement
Sublime and grotesque, my artwork depicts the emotional frailty caused by uncertainty. It reverberates from a guttural place where the effects of past traumas linger. The figures and spaces exist in noir scenes that provide a sense of quiet dread. Individuals and cohorts exemplify the essence of fraught human connectivity. The myriad of faces and forms exist in the abyss of an angst-ridden world filled with distorted expectations and abject conundrums.
I aim to connect to the autonomous sympathetic human response devoid of gender, language, and culture. Aware that facial expressions have the recognizable power to transmit inaudible information that engages the viewer in a simultaneously anonymous and identifiable conversation, I paint faces that mirror human feelings. The images are messy and murky, filled with layers of frenzied lines and subtle glazes. I draw, smudge, superimpose and re-draw to mimic the emotional distress of entanglements, frustrations, and social instability. My portraits and narratives offer comfort to the distressed through transposition, a substitute for real horrors. With inspiration from the artworks of Goya, Kollwitz, Bacon, Dumas, and Condo, I consider my paintings realist in that they project an empathetic response to the trials of contemporary living.
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