Celine Gabrielle, Category is: 2020 Realness
Title
Celine Gabrielle, Category is: 2020 Realness
Subject
painting
Date
2020
Description
Artist Statement
I love bright, bright colors, in big hunks and chunks. Details zoomed in on. Light and shadows, folded-in-on itself to present something altogether different but recognizable. Alluring and intriguing. Never boring.Always engaging. Right now that comes out as paintings, on big canvases, close-up slightly abstract and yet incredibly crisp at the same time.
As a child of the 80's/90's not only was I influenced by the bold in-your-face neon colors, big shoulder pads and modern technology take over, I was also greatly influenced by both my baby boomer parents and my grandparents. I'm very inspired by pop culture, fashion, style, design, and architecture across many generations as far back as the 1920's art deco and flapper girls right through to the 2000's megastars like Lady Gaga and the haute couture fashions of today. As a self-taught artist I'm influenced by the well-known artists I had access to, many popularized in pop culture like Tamara de Lempicka, Rene Magritte, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso.
My work takes from my obsession with fashion and that the clothes we wear are how we tell the world who we are, or maybe who we aspire to be. Sometimes it speaks to our culture and can connect us to a place or time in history. Sometimes it blurs the lines of all that. It always tells a story.
I love bright, bright colors, in big hunks and chunks. Details zoomed in on. Light and shadows, folded-in-on itself to present something altogether different but recognizable. Alluring and intriguing. Never boring.Always engaging. Right now that comes out as paintings, on big canvases, close-up slightly abstract and yet incredibly crisp at the same time.
As a child of the 80's/90's not only was I influenced by the bold in-your-face neon colors, big shoulder pads and modern technology take over, I was also greatly influenced by both my baby boomer parents and my grandparents. I'm very inspired by pop culture, fashion, style, design, and architecture across many generations as far back as the 1920's art deco and flapper girls right through to the 2000's megastars like Lady Gaga and the haute couture fashions of today. As a self-taught artist I'm influenced by the well-known artists I had access to, many popularized in pop culture like Tamara de Lempicka, Rene Magritte, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso.
My work takes from my obsession with fashion and that the clothes we wear are how we tell the world who we are, or maybe who we aspire to be. Sometimes it speaks to our culture and can connect us to a place or time in history. Sometimes it blurs the lines of all that. It always tells a story.
Creator
Celine Gabrielle
Rights
copyright, Celine Gabrielle
Citation
Celine Gabrielle, “Celine Gabrielle, Category is: 2020 Realness,” Exhibits At Acadia, accessed May 6, 2024, https://exhibitsatacadia.omeka.net/items/show/35.