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.
 

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