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Friday Favorite: Gabriella Soraci

4/29/2011

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This Friday’s Feature artist is Gabriella Soraci!

I love her map paintings she created during her residency at the Hambidge Center in Georgia!

In her artist statement, she writes:

I look for objects, materials, and spaces that can provide both a perceptual experience, and a poetic one. Sometimes the inspiration is purely visual – the way a jar of flowers catches the light on a window ledge, or the interaction of blue and orange hues in a checkered cloth. Other times, the inspiration is both conceptual and visual - landscapes referenced by folded maps, or stars in the night sky invoked by punctured black paper taped to a windowpane. Painting is a way for me to connect the visible world with the world of the mind and imagination.

Basic geometric forms of the circle, square, rectangle, and triangle make regular appearances, both in objects selected and in the formal arrangements of the space.

Major sources of inspiration include art history, literature, place, season, and found objects.
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Folded Map I, Oil on Canvas, 34 by 26 inches
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Folded Map II, Oil on Canvas, 18 by 14 inches
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Map in a Circle, Oil on Canvas, 34 by 26 inches
To find out more about Gabriella Soraci, visit her website or Etsy shop!

TGIF!
Mary
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Sarah link
4/29/2011 03:36:15 am

Ooo, I really like her painting series. It looks like something going on in the room of someone with wanderlust!

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Mary C. Nasser link
4/29/2011 03:42:15 am

Glad you like her paintings, too, Sarah!

TGIF!
Mary

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