Risa Hricovsky is a post-discipline installation artist. Their work pushes the boundaries between painting and sculpture and between art, design, and craft. The artworks punctuate space through pattern, color, and their use of the multiple. Working though dichotomies such as order and chaos, attraction and repulsion, and similarity and difference, Hricovsky makes visual poems about perception. Through this mimicry and indexical object making begins a critique of our ideological perceptions of materiality.

Currently, Hricovsky is working on a series titled “Fringe.” These paintings, made from fired, pigmented porcelain, are as hard as they look soft. Shag rugs are synonymous with the 1960s and its counterculture; these free flowing and overly optimistic carpets and rugs represented progressive change, peace, and love. However, sixty years later not much has changed in terms of true equality. These paintings are a metaphor for the ideals of the 1960s, fossilized in sentiment rather than real progress or social equity, yet they still represent the contemporary idealism of radical transformation.