Ava Blitz
Artist's Statement
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things implies the dualities of the physical, elemental state of nature, and the spiritual, metaphoric, and contemplative nature. I am intrigued by the mysterious similarity of structures, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, found in biology, botany, geology, and anthropology. My work is symbolic of the cycles of life, of the elements, and of the forces of growth, change, and evolution. It alludes to the passage of time, petrified in stone or concrete. Lines become blurred and distinctions ambiguous between fossil and artifact, natural history and cultural history, and the present, past and future.

BIO
Ava Blitz is a visual artist who currently her time between studio work in sculpture, works on paper, photography, and public art. From 1986 to 1998 she was Associate Lecturer and Fine Arts Program Director at Bryn Mawr College. Blitz's public works and commissions include Beauty & the Beast at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, NJ, Floating World at the University City Science Center, created under the auspices of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority 1% for Art Program, and Seeds of Memory in Tokyo, Japan. Ava Blitz served on an International Sculpture Symposium panel in Japan, and has lectured on public art for the American Institute of Architects, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Michener Art Museum. She has been the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and fellowships, many of which have funded her public art projects. These include grants from the Japan Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. She has exhibited in public parks and plazas, numerous sculpture parks, and at the Philadelphia International Airport. Most recently, she installed a major piece of public art at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. Ava Blitz has shown locally at the Michener Art Museum, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Noyes Museum, the Sculpture Garden at Trenton Plaza, and the Allentown Art Museum.