Select images of parallel bodies of work 2019-present: Pompeii Gray Paintings and The Tapestries

In 2021, artist/activist/filmaker Joey Soloway inspired and assembled the following presentation highlighting works and insights that would define an exciting new direction for Iva's oeuvre:

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IvaG pompeii gray and tapestries.pdf

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Iva: "My paintings give testament to a conscious and deliberate act, an act that rejects

the hierarchical relationship between painter and surface with the following

consequences: to be in the paintings rather than in front of them; to rely on my

entire body and “feeling” rather than my aesthetic judgment; to witness rather than

control; to privilege the stain over a discrete mark; to reach for something or

someone in the dark. The tapestry paintings are the material manifestation of me

saying “fuck it” to a patriarchal system, history and a state of mind. The Pompeii gray

paintings though stretched constitute a deepening revolt. I feel kinship with

shamanistic rock painters as I scratch the dry, sculptural terrain of the paintings with

brushes that have lost their hair."