Sasha Chavchavadze
Sasha Chavchavadze’s drawings, paintings, and installations explore forgotten history and its effect on memory and place. Her mixed media paintings incorporate layers of antique fabric and collaged watercolor/ink drawings, creating ecosystems of image and text evoking disappearance, loss, and change. Words from forgotten women mentors are applied to the warp and weft of the fabric. Her recent paintings reactivate the life and words of American writer, Margaret Fuller, whose powerful voice was erased over time. Chavchavadze’s work has been exhibited at the Katonah Museum of Art, Cooper Union Gallery, and Old Stone House Museum, to name a few. She is the founder of Proteus Gowanus, a cultural hub in Brooklyn.