Randi Matushevitz

Hybrid  portrait

Randi Matushevitz is a visual artist based in Los Angeles known for her large-scale mixed media drawings, video, installation, and new media projects that explore the subjective nature of human understanding and connection. My drawings, paintings, digital and video artwork delve into the depths of human emotions in surrealistic environments that push the boundaries of conventional aesthetics of privacy, personal comfort and belonging. 

Matushevitz is a recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship 2023-24, Curator’s Choice Award Video Installation 2024, Safe Spaces Exhibition, Art Connect Society, and Finalist Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund 2024. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally including, Projecting Possibilities Los Angeles, Jerusalem Biennale, and Las Vegas Art Museum. Public acquisitions include Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain Center, the Marjorie Barrick Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, and the Enter Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany. 

Bibliography includes Contemporary Art Curator, Riot Material, Whitehot Magazine, Huffington Post, Diversions LA, Canvas Rebel, Carpazine Magazine and Coagula Art Journal.  

My interest in contemporary portraiture lies in making visible what we feel on the inside. In still and moving images, I explore how interior emotional states—identity, personality, and transformation—can be reflected outwardly. My work begins with traditional portraiture that evolves through photographic and digital tools that allow for the merging of human and non-human forms, blurring the boundaries of gender, species, and self.

These portraits are not bound by binary definitions. They represent fictional yet emotionally real beings—muses, adventurers, ingenues, mangenues—whose exterior forms are shaped by their interior truths. Plant, animal, and human characteristics intermingle to express emotional and environmental fluidity, transformation, and healing.

Portraiture, for me, is a deep act of connection—an exploration of how we see ourselves, how we change, and how we want to be seen. This work asks: What has happened to you, to me. It is a journey through image-making toward understanding and redefinition, with the hope of reaching a shared, expansive sense of humanity, self and state of being.