Art Exhibit: Ahuva Zaslavsky

Ahuva Zaslavsky will exhibit her artwork in the library's Community Room during the month of November 2019. The Community Room is available when not in use.

Artist Bio: Ahuva Zaslavsky was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and moved to Portland, Oregon in 2010. Ahuva is a Printmaker and a Painter. She graduated from The University of the Negev, Israel with a B.A in behavioral sciences. Her art practice began when she moved to Portland, at the CE program at PNCA and at Crow's Shadow institute of the arts. Coming from a diverse cultural background, psychology, sociology and literature studies, Ahuva is constantly seeking to understand the relations between human behaviors, the individual motivation to be and creat and the interaction with the outer world of society and culture. She is dealing with identity questions of the subject in a group and as an individual. Ahuva's current theme is movement and rhythm of the individual in the private and public spaces, their expression within the psychological and mental space, and the ways to express them in two dimensional forms.

Artist's Statement: "Who are you, lovely masquerader" (motion/ Wislawa Szymborska,1962). Who am I? And you? What masks are we wearing when we are alone and when we present ourselves in public? Through my work, I explore these universal ideas of identity, sense of belonging and lack of belonging, how we perceive ourselves in the personal and public spaces and what is our physical, social and cultural place in society. Space and movement are like a Tango dancing. Each depends on the other. They can allow and limit, expand and shrink. I want you to look at my work and experience both elements in action. I want you to feel confused and get lost, to see and feel the human interactions and imperfections, the struggle and joy in being alone and together. For me, the creation of art is a microcosmos of the relationship
discussed here, of one versus many, private and public, movement and space and all the range of emotions, feelings and thoughts we all share as human being. My primary mediums are printmaking and painting. In my monotypes I like the simple, flat and clean effects I get. In this technique I apply ink on a plexiglass and use various tools to get the results I desire.