RANDI MATUSHEVITZ

ARTIST BIO

Randi Matushevitz is a visual artist based in Los Angeles known for her large-scale mixed media drawings, video, installation, and digital projects that explore the subjective nature of human understanding and connection.

Matushevitz is a recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship 2023-24, Curator’s Choice Award Video Installation 2024, Safe Spaces Exhibition, Art Connect Society, and Finalist Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund 2024. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally including, Projecting Possibilities Los Angeles, Jerusalem Biennale, and Las Vegas Art Museum. Public acquisitions include Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain Center, the Marjorie Barrick Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, and the Enter Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany.

Bibliography includes Contemporary Art Curator, Riot Material, Whitehot Magazine, Huffington Post, Diversions LA, Canvas Rebel, Carpazine Magazine and Coagula Art Journal.


ARTIST STATEMENT

My drawings, paintings, digital and video artwork delve into the depths of human emotions in surrealistic environments that unveil the instincts that reside within our collective psyche. This environment is a response to the societal norms surrounding personal stories that push the boundaries of conventional aesthetics of privacy, personal comfort and belonging.

Digital Muses explore the complexities of identity, gender, and the interior character of personality, revealed in a portrait. Convulsive, twisted, and textured, they often look like a hybrid between human, animal, landscape, or undefined substance or state of being, pushing the boundaries of contemporary portraiture.
My process constructs, deconstructs and reconstructs the human form via expression, setting, environment, theme and texture. I create a portrait, in a collaboration that begins with an oil painting and moves through digital and Ai manipulations. The result is a contemporary portrait of the future. One that is “unrealism” an unrealistic form in an uncanny experience that envisions alternate realities of what is and what is possible to imagine.

Through evocative imagery, symbolism, and often unsettling subject matter, these artworks invite the viewer to confront their fears, explore innermost complexities, and contemplate the inherent dichotomy of the human experience. It serves as a poignant reminder that belonging and healing can be found in the most unlikely places, and that even within the struggle of life’s imperfections and uncertainties, there is a profound allure and profound opportunity for introspection and personal growth.