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Ava Bock

Asheville, NC

"Abstract + Minimal + Mindful"
Ava Bock is a female, latine, disabled veteran, artist, and photographer born and raised in the lower regions of New York. Following the incident on September 11th, 2001, Ava permanently relocated to North Carolina and began her educational journey. After earning an AFA degree in Digital Art, she settled along the Blue Ridge section of the Appalachian mountain range. There she completed a BFA degree in Sculpture, specializing in industrial plastics. She founded Ava Bock Art in 2016 and has since remained a resident of the Tar Heel State, splitting her time between its coastal and mountainous regions. While continuing to further her own art career, Ava supports her local community as a substitute art teacher and a mentor.

Ava has a long history of using the act of art creation to aid in processing the regular stress associated with ongoing medical care. That life is what first exposed her to a world at odds with plastic. Her appreciation of the diverse applications available with resins directly conflicted with its health risks and environmental concerns.

Ava discovered bio-resins as she navigated this dilemma within her own art practice. Since then, she has been working with them while searching for more sustainable and eco-friendly plastic options every step of the way. Her medical and environmental history inspired her to create the bio-resin artworks she is known for today. Whether it’s a color-filled resin sculpture piece intended for meditation practice, a memorial encasement piece to bring comfort to a surviving loved one, or a calming wall piece aimed at increasing the enjoyment of commercial spaces, each piece that Ava creates is a visual manifestation of the search for balance that drives her own life.

She currently creates a variety of drawings, paintings, vessels, and sculptural reliefs using bio-resin plastics from her studio in the Biltmore Village section of Asheville, North Carolina.

Things to know:

All works are cast resin with acrylic backing or hanging material
Epoxy Resin is transparent.
Polyurethane Resin is opaque.
All pieces are best displayed and enjoyed in a temperature-controlled environment that has indirect sunlight.
Clean with rubbing alcohol/water mix or distilled white vinegar/water mix using ONLY.

IMPACT

Handmade

Woman Owned

Sustainable

Recycled Materials

Made In USA

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