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With her debut solo exhibition Squeezing the Ocean, Ada Roth ponders the ethereal tension between mystery and revelation. Her visceral, dreamlike compositions blend abstraction, surrealism, and spiritual introspection to convey sensations of suspension. As she describes; “the feeling of floating on the surface of a vast body of water, with sunlight on your face, knowing there’s a dark depth below ready to swallow you up. All you know is you have to stay afloat.”
Roth’s work is informed by her own struggles with anxiety and depression, as well as Buddhist concepts of the bardos, hungry ghosts, and hell realms – transitional states where beings caught in desire yearn for rebirth. It is in these otherworldly spaces that Roth finds her most compelling imagery. Luminous, cirrus-white brushstrokes trace delicate layers across murky atmospheres, suggesting the faint, compassionate presence of an unseen force. These forms, both biologica…
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THE LIVING ROOM
With her debut solo exhibition Squeezing the Ocean, Ada Roth ponders the ethereal tension between mystery and revelation. Her visceral, dreamlike compositions blend abstraction, surrealism, and spiritual introspection to convey sensations of suspension. As she describes; “the feeling of floating on the surface of a vast body of water, with sunlight on your face, knowing there’s a dark depth below ready to swallow you up. All you know is you have to stay afloat.”
Roth’s work is informed by her own struggles with anxiety and depression, as well as Buddhist concepts of the bardos, hungry ghosts, and hell realms – transitional states where beings caught in desire yearn for rebirth. It is in these otherworldly spaces that Roth finds her most compelling imagery. Luminous, cirrus-white brushstrokes trace delicate layers across murky atmospheres, suggesting the faint, compassionate presence of an unseen force. These forms, both biologica…
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