Judy Gittelsohn Fauvist Head Acrylic on Canvas 2019

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Wonderful fauvist abstract expressionist painting titled "Nice Dark Head" by Northern California artist Judy Gittelsohn (American, born 1958), 2019. Signed … Read more Wonderful fauvist abstract expressionist painting titled "Nice Dark Head" by Northern California artist Judy Gittelsohn (American, born 1958), 2019. Signed lower left corner and on verso. Title and date on verso. Unframed. Size: 28"H x 22"W. Purchased from the artist.

Born in Oregon, Judy Gittelsohn has been painting in the Bay Area and beyond for over 40 years. She attended San Francisco Art Institute and Univ. of Oregon Architecture School. Judy has worked steadily in the community bringing art to at risk youth, people with disabilities and to the general public. It is in her make up to support and encourage all her students and artists to better their art vocabulary and their enjoyment of art. Judy owned an art studio Art For Well Beings, for 7 years serving people with developmental disabilities. Now, Judy works in the community applying all the tools, curriculum and approaches she has developed. She exhibits widely and her work is collected around the world in both private and corporate collections.

ARTIST STATEMENT
"My paintings are large acrylic color studies of objects; people, places and things. Each of my subjects is situated in an atmosphere and featured as a portrait. I appreciate a mixture of their representational and abstract qualities. I am interested in shapes, planes, layers and the places where these intersect and what they form. The stories and the emotions of these forms absorb me.

With paint, these objects are built of dimensional shapes, waves and transparent sweeps. I focus on the continuum and the interruption of the application of color. These turns and twists develop their nature. My objects do not have to stand or support. They can float and fly and disappear and reveal and take us where physics cannot." See less