Biography

Ava Bock is an American abstract artist working across surface, relief, and object. Her work explores the relationship between organic systems and constructed environments through a reductive visual language grounded in fixed forms and material restraint.

Bock’s practice developed through a long, interdisciplinary path that began with photography and digital imaging and evolved toward three-dimensional form. She earned an Associate of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from Cape Fear Community College and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2022, where she specialized in industrial materials.

Working with bio-resins, inks, recycled polyester, and cast polymers, Bock employs slow, layered processes that emphasize accumulation, containment, and material presence. Her work is structured around a limited formal vocabulary, most notably the circle and the square, which function as fixed elements across all media.

She currently lives and works in Eugene, Oregon, where she is continuing to develop her studio practice.