g. gracia

LOCATION:     Vancouver, British Columbia    CANADA

CONTACT:      gggracia@gmail.com

BIOGRAPHY:

I pursued both psychology and fine arts  in university. Mixed media was my primary interest with psychology playing a large role in determining the imagery I created.  Works leaned towards the notion of self-concept.  Specifically, how fragile and how haunted we can become by them.  This is partly why my work has a level of hesitation between one moment and another.  The subjects are caught at a point of reflection as they head towards a future they are uncertain and afraid  of.

This has been one interpretation of many I can make as to what motivates me to create work in the manner I do but it has been the foundation I have built my thoughts on.

Artist statement

The works represents a psychological journey of intense and highly personal emotions.  Emotions that can only be identified by the viewers own psyche.

The inner sense of  self, our individuality, is  a place filled with a myriad of emotions that  follow even create us. A self-imposed concept that can engulf or complete an individual. Regardless of gender, age or ethnicity this heuristic entity is the universal framework for our perceptions and connections  with others and most importantly ourselves.  This dimension is one of the essential components my work addresses.

Each  piece permits the viewer into the subjects somewhat dreamlike realm.  However, hesitation as well as an aura of fearfulness arises in allowing the viewer to witness  their raw state of being. 

For the audience to  associate with these works,  the undefined becomes the catalyst  for  relating  to it on a more challenging level:  personally and mentally. The anonymous space that the subjects inhabit and for the most part,  anonymous gender,  are  the primary elements that  an  audience can  utilize to identify  themselves with and eventually  discover  meaning in the  paintings.

On a More Personal Note.......

My work represents an inner passion to create, to sort out those feelings, those unexplainable needs or sensations pent up in a creative person.

There is never any certainty in this pursuit. At times, there is this sense of accomplishment that I have finished or completed something. It's almost as if I've figured out a piece of my self-puzzle. Is that even a word?

On the opposite end of the spectrum, to start something new is just as invigorating. Where am I going with this endeavour? Art has been the most difficult and most enriching experience. What it brings out of me serves my curiosity.

Creating is a pursuit I can never walk away from.  It follows me. It seeps out when I least expect it. I adore that aspect most. It will never allow me to be left alone. When all else may fail, I have this 'thing' that will always be with me.

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Thank you for stopping by.

g

 gggracia@gmail.com