The artist swabs microbes from his own sensory organs – ears, mouth, eyes – to cultivate these vibrant worlds before dehydrating and affixing them to his watercolors. The works on paper themselves are transcendental in form yet earthly in material; mesmerizing lines and cryptic shapes evoke metaphysical themes while rainwater and mineral pigments root the compositions in the physical world. Ravn received an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art in 2020 and a BFA in Painting from the Glasgow School of Art in 2015. He currently lives and works in New York.
Brooklyn, New York