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Lix North

Lix North paints respirator-clad canaries navigating post-apocalyptic wastelands, which tells you most of what you need to know about her worldview.

Raised in the ‘80s in the stunning isolation of New Zealand's hill country, she developed
both a unique way of seeing the world and an uncommon comfort with her own
company. Rife with canaries and their inherent symbolism, two decades of intricate,
introspective self-portraiture informed the dystopian landscapes her feathery avatars now traverse in the Aves ex Machina series.

Working at the collision point of surrealist vision and hyperrealist execution (because
painting tiny feathers with tinier brushes is a formidable salve for existential disquiet), she
whiles...

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