Ava Blitz (lives Penn Valley, PA) has a BFA from the University of Toronto, Ontario and an MFA from the University of Georgia, Athens. Her work has been exhibited at the Allentown Art Museum, PA; Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ; Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA; and the Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington. Blitz has completed projects for the Philadelphia Airport, the NJ Department of Health and the Martin Luther King Older Adult Center in Philadelphia. She has received grants from Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Independence Foundation, Japan Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Leeway Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Blitz has lectured on public art for the American Institute of Architects, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Michener Art Museum.
Statement from the Artist:
My work is about the dualities of the physical, elemental nature and the metaphoric, mystical, and contemplative nature, be they peaceful or clashing. My aesthetic evolves organically as an experimental expression of process and material, influenced by cultural tradition. I see a fine line between natural history and cultural history, fossil and artifact and the past, present, and future.