AVM Hawkins at John Palmer Art Gallery, Houston, Texas.
AVM Hawkins is an American contemporary fine artist of Creole descent, currently based in Houston, Texas. An abstract expressionist, AVM intuitively employs color, contrast, and movement to evoke emotion, incorporating mixed materials, verbiage, and multiple layers of paint to draw viewers deeper into her work. She seamlessly blends freehand patterns rich in color with fluid, gestural improvisations, bridging the worlds of form and abstraction and allowing space for exploration and serendipity.
“I gravitate to certain materials subconsciously and apply them impulsively, possessed with a sparked conviction to act without excessive contemplation. Each painting will reveal a specific personality, an individualized self and message. The path always unfolds before me, leaving me vulnerable and open for the opportunity of a divine detour.”
Through layers of various mixed media, AVM transforms the physicality of the canvas into a relic that exudes history, decay, and energy. This transmutation becomes an embodiment of stored intentions, inspirations, moods, and emotions—an evolving visual expression that, once observed, experienced, and interpreted, forms an exchange of consciousness, equating to art.