K. ORR AMBROSE

Instagram | @OrrAmbrose

Website | orrambrose.com 

ARTIST STATEMENTS

FLAVIA LOVATELLI 

The ocean will for ever inspire my work. I grew up in Italy and spent my summers snorkeling in Grece, Sardenia, Sicily and the west coast of Italy. There I would see all sorts of creatures, starfish, urchins, anemones and so on. I loved spending time observing and marveling at the beautiful sea life. So it stands to reason that all my creations are a distant memory of that. I hope the viewer can draw the love from my pieces that I have spilled onto them.

Paper, my chosen material, embodies the paradoxical qualities that we see in nature: its fragility and durability, its strength and delicacy; there is a pleasing poetic symmetry in taking this material that was cut from the forest and by cutting and transforming it once again returning it to its origins.

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K. ORR AMBROSE

Stories is a new body of work exploring the concept of Self-Storytelling — the stories you tell yourself and how they profoundly shape you and conjure your world. The series aims to bring attention to the limitations of the consciousness of self-stories and what happens when you bring greater awareness to these thoughts and beliefs. How do your stories affect your perceptions? How do they affect others? If you are living one story can you stop telling it and choose another?

Paintings are first rendered in a layer of actively applied acrylic paint with attention to color theme and composition. Next, any figures, additional detail work, overall development, and changes are added with oil paint. Each painting in the series is a unique, open story created by a random or subconscious combination of disparate images pulled from both old and new photographs, social media, friends, family, and daily life. The figures are often found in surreal circumstances and dreamlike, abstracted landscapes which point back to the subjectivity of perception. Each painting relies on the relationship found between its human and animal characters suggesting archetypes, mythologies, and instances of coexistance that are both a celebration of the natural world and elegies to its destruction. The viewer is invited to enter through their own personal experiences, reflections, or memories. Any meaning or narrative is open to interpretation and an act of conscious engagement. I like to think I am constructing stories that both do and do not belong to any specific person, but embrace the plurality of realities and encourage us, if only for a moment, to step out of the story and into the song.​