Françoise Gilot: Compositions, 2002-2005
Curated by Louise Tolliver Deutschman
Françoise Gilot has been an expert witness to past significant events and great moments. She is immersed in the present tense of painting and also a close friend of powerful memories. Her paintings contain and reveal their memories with a sassiness and subtle humor that only a serious artist can assimilate well.
It is quite an achievement to be able to make a visual connection between the Paris of the “Apache” dancer and the rituals of the Mimbres and the Mescaleros.
Her paintings have the simultaneous fragility and robustness of a custom made bi-plane: speed and vulnerability claiming space. Her saturated colors inhale Navaho reds and Provençal browns and exhale California blues and whites. These colors as in a “beautiful” theorem exude logic and also, mysteriously, desire.
GRAHAM NICKSON
Dean,
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture
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All works Courtesy of The Elkon Gallery, Inc. The Tree of Life, 2002 oil on canvas 63-3/4 x 51-3/4 inches April Sunshine, 2002 oil on canvas 63-3/4 x 51-3/4 inches Blue Sky, 2003 oil on canvas 63-3/4 x 51-3/4 inches Uncertainty Principle, 2004 oil on canvas 63-3/4 x 51-3/4 inches ...
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Each morning in my studio when I come face-to-face with the canvas, the most important thing before I start working is to gather my energies; to ignite my thoughts: to reach a level of intensity from which shapes and colors will be born. I can stand still for up to ...
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A Personal Reminiscence by Louise Tolliver Deutschman FRANÇOISE GILOT: PAST & PRESENT It was more than a quarter of a century ago that I first met Françoise Gilot in La Jolla, California. One Sunday afternoon in late March in 1980, I was having lunch on the terrace of the ...