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"Her abstractions, freed from the obligation to depict the material world, are in pursuit of a timeless visual order."
T. Avery (b. 1954, American) is a self-taught painter whose work draws on the CoBrA tradition, working in monochromatic abstraction — lines, circles, and gestural marks — to create compositions rooted in form, pattern, and line rather than representation. She came to painting in her later life, bringing to it a sensibility shaped by decades of immersion in the design and fine art worlds.
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T. Avery was born in the United States in 1954. Her work is shaped by a lifelong devotion to beautiful things, a sensibility that has expressed itself across both the design world and the fine arts, and that led her, in her later years, to painting. She is self-taught.
Her practice is rooted in the visual and philosophical tradition of CoBrA, the postwar movement founded in Paris in 1948 that brought together artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam in a shared commitment to raw, spontaneous, and psychologically direct expression. Within that tradition, the work of French artist Florent Wells, born in 1922, has been a particular and sustained influence on her approach.
Avery works in a monochromatic visual language of lines, circles, and gestural marks, building compositions from pattern, form, and movement rather than representation. Her practice is grounded in a belief that abstraction, freed from the obligation to depict the material world, opens onto something beyond it. The simplicity of her means is deliberate: she pursues the creation of beautiful effects through reduction, seeking in each work a quality of timeless visual order that carries what she describes as a spiritual dimension.