Michal Raz

(b 1984, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Michal Raz's practice involves painting; screen printing; digital printing and collage . Her works may be grasped as a continues research of ethnology; pattern making; ornamentation; abstract art; pop culture and digital aesthetics; avoiding any final definition or a linear narrative; nor imposing any fixed idea or absolute conclusion. Raz's interests and sources of inspiration varies from Eastern philosophies; art history; pop culture; feminist art; music; the digital age; and more. Her paintings are made by layering and accumulating different ways of making and materials; many times until the point of exhaustion; a meeting point between abstraction; decoration and imagery; stripped down combinations; repetitions; and re/de-constructions. In my work; there's an attempt to represent excess; where there's too much going on to be assimilated; and therefore; things are not coherent.