Art in Alternative Spaces
Featured Artist
Gabriella Boros
Directions
Acrylic on Paper
34 x 22"
$ 1,200
© Gabriella Boros
Embrace
Acrylic on Paper
34 x 22"
$ 1,200
© Gabriella Boros
Sisters
Acrylic on Paper
34 x 22"
$ 1,200
© Gabriella Boros
Artist's Statement
"My work is a filtration of a lifetime worth of symbols and
choreography, which depict a concept. In the past year, I have developed a more
cinematographic narrative style. A series of seemingly unrelated paintings on
the paper, demand the viewer to draw parallels and conclusions. Instead of
figures, I have chosen hands as stand-ins.
I work hard at uncovering the symbols from my own associations and ruminations.
Some of my symbols are derived from my Israeli/Jewish background, i.e., the
hills of the Golan embrace the plain as do the hands of the couple embrace.
My process for creating the pieces begins with a written concept on which I
build images. Animals and plants represent aspects of nature. Humans struggle
alongside nature, sometimes oblivious to it, often fighting it. In my recent
work, the Israeli landscape has captured me with its undulating and
simultaneously harsh topography. By using a deliberate placement and sizing of
the landscapes alongside hands, people and other items, I am creating a new type
of narrative, less confrontational than the mythologies of the past years, it is
also more mysterious.
Currently, I paint in acrylics on paper. I apply upwards of ten layers on the
paper working as the Old Masters did with their layers of veneer. By building up
layers of contrasting colors I attain a transluscence which I further emphasize
with a surface of gel. This final layer also gives the painting an illusion of
greater distance and dimensionality."
Gabriella was born in Jerusalem, Israel and her family emigrated
to the U.S. in 1968. She studied at the Sir John Cass School
of Art, in London England and later in 1983 received a BFA from the
University of Michigan School of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Gabriella has exhibited her work in many galleries since 1998.
She has had solo exhibitions at Schopf Gallery on Lake, Chicago, Illinois, at
the Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Illinois, and at Puszh Gallery, Chicago.
She was awarded First Place in the 2005 juried exhibition "12 x 12" at the
Art Center of Highland Park, IL.
To Purchase Artwork or for more information, please contact:
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858 W. Armitage #354, Chicago, IL 60614
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