About

Augustina Droze examines the binary of beauty and repulsion, sacrifice and gift. Her artwork explores the interaction of humans with the natural world through colorful and rhythmic imagery. In her swirling, dream-like paintings, geographic regions are conceptually mapped using the invasive species which have critically altered and endangered the terrain. On the surface her paintings are colorful and decorative. Her optically powerful paintings depict arrangements of flowers, fish, birds, moths, and insects magnified and organized into symmetrical compositions that elaborately explore …