
Mash Ritchie
Artist member since 2019
ProToronto, Ontario
Mash Ritchie is an emerging artist living and working as an art consultant in Toronto, ON. She has graduated from OCAD University with a BFA from the Drawing and Painting program.
Ritchie directs her abilities between two disciplines of painting: abstract and surreal landscapes (current series in progress, unavailable). As these parallels are explored, the theme of identity has become present in her artistic journey as she reflects and situates herself within it. Wanting to explore her practice without the limitations of having a "cohesive" body of work, Ritchie continues to explore her methods of painting through her two directions of painting.
In her “Untitled Series”, Ritchie continues to expand on expressive mark making following her intuitive process. Familiar to this method of painting, she is re-imagining her abstract works from a perspective of ‘reflection’, as this method of painting has been a foundational marker in her artistic career.
Currently, Ritchie has been exploring surreal landscapes. Pulling ideas from her own identity, she has been dissecting her ideologies, partial religious upbringing, the influence of outside events and how she views herself as a 'being' having a human experience. Throughout her new series, a lucid reality can be seen through motifs and objects within dire landscapes (current series in progress, unavailable).
Work
Untitled Series
Artworks
"Theres a message in the grass but you can't see it because my foot is on it"
- Mash Ritchie
- 30" x 24"
- $750 buy — $55 try
Unavailable
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Q+A
I'm really good at making (a) ...
Stretchers and Ukrainian beet buns!
Favourite book
Always the last book I've read.
What do you listen to when you work?
Any of these bands: MeWithoutYou, Paramore, MCR, Billy Talent, Ghost, SOAD, Slipknot
Why is art important to you?
It can be anything and everything. There are no boundaries but the ones you choose for yourself.
How long have you been creating art?
Since I was a child but I have been painting abstractly since 2016.
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2018
2017
Accolades
2019
Press
2021
2019
Residencies
2019
Education
2019
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