AVIKO
One-Woman Show at the Flying Hare Foyer Gallery"Aviko is old as the mountains, and silent as deep
space. She's the clarity that permeates the chaos, the calm in eye of the storm,
the tempest in the midst of tranquility -- that which is constant in you, me,
and we."
Most of Aviko's work is in gestural abstracts. She favors
a sumi-e-like gestural approach to her subject matter. She characterizes her
own work as meditation on archetype. It is executed in the space between "the
breath of out and the breath of in" such that the artist attempts to invoke
only objective expression, eliminating the clutter of the personality and its
emotional baggage. (Quote from "The Women's Song" ©1980 Margaret McDonnell.)
Says Aviko, "The secret of true gesture is the life that passes through it. When life is sustained by the gesture, the artwork has a magical quality that can touch the being of the beholder. That's the reason to pursue it."Aviko's work has been influenced by the late and Venerable Chogyum Trungpa Rinpoche and artist E.J. Gold. She studies currently with Gold, also an author respected for his writings on transformational psychology (among which are the classic American Book of the Dead and The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus).