Caroline Avent

For as long as I can remember, influence has never arrived to me in a single, tidy form. It has come layered—like sediment, like code, like memory. My work is shaped by the tension between structure and surrender, between the corporate architecture I once inhabited and the cosmic vastness that has always pulled at me from underneath it.

Artistically, my work is inspired by the quiet resilience of women who have rewritten their own stories. Ultimately, my greatest influence is lived experience itself—the collision of ambition and burnout, certainty and doubt, chaos and ignition. My work responds to the world around me, but also to the world within me.

“Influences II” invites artists to articulate the threads that shape their visual language. For me, those threads are not linear—they are entangled. My paintings hold the residue of structure while insisting on freedom. They honor the systems that built me and the rebellion that set me apart. From Ruth Bader Ginsburg to scientific revelations- all have influenced me deeper than a singular experience. While broad my work showcases the diversity of influence across all forms of creativity.