Oona Ratcliffe, "ink drawing x 33", 2023.

Ink on paper.

11" x 14"

Description:

In this body of work, Ratcliffe returns to this foundational relationship of seeing and recording the natural world. Through contemplation of the varied and seemingly infinite structure of plant life and in awe inspired by nature and the ephemerality of looking, she creates with her pen, ink, and paper a literal life line. She examined the root masses, the flying tangles and dark, mysterious clusters, overlaps, juxtapositions, leaves, stems, in between spaces, the feminine mossy undergrowth in an effort to capture something ephemeral in personal time.

About the Artist:

Ratcliffe was born in Bolinas, California. She received her early artistic education at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia and earned a BA from University of California in Santa Cruz, California. She studied at the Ecole de Louvre in Paris and received an MFA from Hunter College in New York. Ratcliffe was awarded the Graf Travel Grant from Hunter College and the Textiles Study Grant from the University of Santa Cruz. She has participated in various exhibitions across the U.S., including a solo show at Susan Inglett Gallery, New York and recent group shows at the Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, the Bolinas Museum, California, Roberts & Tilton, California, and Geoffrey Young Gallery, Massachusetts. Ratcliffe received a Janet Sloane Residency Award at Yaddo in 2005. She lives and works in New York City.