JOCELYN ULEVICUS Original Work and An Artist’s Statement

JOCELYN ULEVICUS | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT

As an intuitive artist, Jocelyn Ulevicus (1979) creates out of a female speculative perspective. Inspired by nature and the unseen, themes of exit and entry, of change and transmutation, are dominantly present in her work. Whether painting flowers or more abstract works, her paintings are a direct response to her emotional life as she explores what it means to be a woman today. Using everyday experiences as a starting point, she unpacks the normative conditioning that dominated her childhood. Her arrangements are schematic, often playful, exploratory, and urgent, inviting the viewer to move into a space of critical speculation. Most of all, Ulevicus wants you to feel.

Her recent flower-themed work is motivated by the return to joy and free expression prompted by her exploration of alcohol-free living. Juxtaposing hard and geometric shapes with soft marks and bold colors, she exposes herself as vulnerable and wild, as unexpected and unpredictable. In her own words, “My art changes as I change. I change, I change, I change with the seasons.”

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