RANDI MATUSHEVITZ

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Randi Matushevitz is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles best known for her large-scale mixed media drawings. She holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Miami (UM). Her drawings, paintings, and installations have been exhibited in galleries, art fairs, cultural centers, and museums in the US and Abroad. Her artwork is collected publicly and privately. Public acquisitions include Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain Center, Las Vegas,NV, the Marjorie Barrick Art Museum (Las Vegas Art Museum Collection at UNLV), Las Vegas, NV, and the Enter Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany. Matushevitz is the recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for 2023.

In large scale mixed media drawing I explore raw human emotions and the delicate nature of the human connectivity. Messy, bombastic, and vibratory my ferocious mark pulsates with the tension of an emotional escapade of charcoal, pastel and acrylic, on paper or canvas, existing in noir atmospheres of a shadow space. The drawings consist of personal narratives and reflective reactions to the frenetic unsettled polarized world around me. As these works emerge from the depths of the page as portal, I become aware of the cathartic meditation of tension and release in my process as the images develop and reveal themselves to me. It is a personal excavation that is an example of acceptance and strength intended to resonate with the primal psychological and physical aspects of the temporality of existence, to suggest a commonality and thus, a greater acceptance to the cross-cultural and diversely identifying human community.