In my work, I explore the subject of human connection. Themes of motherhood, relationships, vulnerability, and tenderness are personified through the tangling of bodies and interlacing of limbs. As mother to my young children, I am curious how the knotted and layered figures come together to form one abstracted unit. As I use paint and collage, the play between control and the unexpected becomes a metaphor for the complexities of relationships. There is holding on and letting go, there is love and fear, and there is a dance between autonomy and closeness.

Jill Lavetsky is a visual artist and educator living in Newfield, NY, having recently relocated from South Florida. She received a Master's degree in painting from Florida Atlantic University in 2013, and has taught college, K-12 through community outreach, as well as incarcerated women. She had recent solo exhibitions at CAP Art Space in Ithaca, NY, and at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL.

Exhibitions:

In The Middle With You

Here I Can Creep Smoothly On The Floor, And Fit In That Smooch Around The Wall, So I Cannot Lose My Way