Ava Polczynski...​

​holds a BFA in Sculpture, Installation, and Site Work from the Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. 

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Approaching the act of making through an exploratory lens, my practice engages the visual and philosophical systems through which humans interpret the natural world– examining human epistemologies and how they influence our perception of life on Earth. My work whimsically weaves object oriented ontologies and the aesthetics of natural history to subvert the institutional languages that shape our perception, beliefs, and authority. My main sources of inspiration stem from biology and natural history, and explores how systems of belief and display shape human relationships to nonhuman life.