Ava Lippert
Ava Lippert (b. 2004, Chicago, IL) is a painter currently residing in Savannah, Georgia. Specializing in painting, she explores themes of nostalgia and queerness, as well as growth and relationships, through the use of surreal and dreamy imagery. Her primary medium is acrylic paint, though she explores time based media as well, creating hand-painted stop motion videos. Lippert attends the Savannah College of Art and Design, and is projected to graduate with a BFA in painting in 2027.
Through layers of translucent paint, I develop a dreamy world of soft blues, purples, and pinks that transports and immerses the viewer. A motif throughout my practice is the character “Birdbunny”; When I was younger, a friend told me that if she and I were animals, she would be a bird and I would be a bunny, and she would eat me. Birdbunny is the hybrid of a girl, a bird, and a bunny, representing personal growth and understanding the perspectives of those who have hurt us in the past. My work also focuses on queerness, exploring the concept through the lens of nostalgia and comfort. All of these themes manifest themselves into the dreamy landscape Birdbunny inhabits, telling a universal story of adolescence and relationships.