Artist statement + bio
Ali Raizin is a queer artist and designer, raised in Chicago and based in San Francisco since 2012. She has exhibited at several gallery shows across San Francisco and her installation piece, Forever Fog, debuted in Detroit and has since been shown in three different site-specific installations across San Francisco and Oakland.
Her interdisciplinary, process-based art is an active response to the overwhelming reality of ecological loss. Ali’s body of work spans print, video, sound, sculpture and scent, creating moments to confront and process the pre-traumatic stress of life during climate collapse.
Ali’s art utilizes recurring organic forms across mediums. The construction process of her work includes repetitive and meditative movements, creating space for solo and collaborative reflection.
Selected Work
A Path Forward
A Path Forward is an exploration of the relationship between joy, play, and day-to-day life alongside climate grief and anxiety. At human scale, the piece is a playful, spacious maze of aluminum tubes, ladders, nets, and shadows, its heavy message obscured. The message hovers nonetheless, most visible from above.