ABOUT
BIO/STATEMENT
Ava Bramlett is an emerging female painter based in Brooklyn, exploring the physicality within processing memory as a corporeal experience of the female body. Bramlett’s on-going investigation of communicating deeply rooted emotional registers within the body, defines corporeality through the sanguine (and its lineages) as a nearly universal bodily state. Grounded in the cultural constructs of horror films as well as nods to religious tropes within religious icon paintings, Bramlett’s figurative practice foregrounds psychological states of isolation and fear.
Bramlett received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2023, and a BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design in 2021. Amongst the youngest graduates of her MFA cohort, Bramlett has highly developed skills rendering the body through realism and a rigorous technical process in the making of her multi-layered works. Throughout Bramlett’s academic career of painterly training, she has been heavily awarded with multiyear scholarships based on merit of artistic excellence from American institutions on both coasts. Additionally, Bramlett serves as an arts educator in New York City.