Born and raised in New Jersey, Avalon is a mixed media artist specializing in photography, videography, and graphic design. She earned her BFA with a concentration in Photography from Ringling College of Art and Design, where she developed a unique artistic style influenced by pop culture, media, and fashion.
Avalon's work as an editorial and fine art photographer is driven by storytelling, while her videography focuses on creating video montages that explore the concept of time. In her graphic design projects, particularly in book and zine creation, she merges aesthetics with the intersection of past and present media styles.
Exhibitions
2021 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery, This is Me Trying, Sarasota, FL, 2021
Interact; interrelate, DebraM. Cooley Photography Center, Selected Works, Sarasota, FL
Earth Mother/Mother Earth, dont-smile.com, Anthropocene, Sarasota, FL, 2020
PI Student Show, Exhibition Hall, Black out Days, Sarasota, FL
P&I, Stulberg Gallery, Lasata series, Sarasota, FL
Beyond Measure, DebraM. Cooley Photography Center, Lasata series, Sarasota, FL
Adulting, Urbanite theatre, Dans Le Noir series, Sarasota, FL
Chroma, Debra M. Cooley Photography Center, Gloves series, Sarasota, FL, 2019
Mise En Scene, Debra M. Cooley Photography Center, Selected works, Sarasota, FL
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“Part of making work is making it really close to me but then giving it away. I’m totally detached from it. It doesn’t feel like mine anymore. It feels like I’m kind of mourning my work, but mourning means there’s space for something new”
— Olivia Bee