Esmerelda, from the series Spring by Alice Gur-Arie

About the work
Date of completion:
2018
Edition type:
Limited edition
Classification:
Mixed Media
Medium:
Mixed media
Dimensions:
24×36 in

Provenance records
  • 20 Sep 2018 Verification
    The owner has verified the artwork record data.
  • 20 Sep 2018 Creation
    The artwork has been created
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Artist statement:
Alice Gur-Arie is an award nominated mixed media artist whose work has been auctioned at Christie's and exhibited at the Iceland Embassy of London. It is held in collections in the UK, US, Israel, Germany and Canada. 
Inspired by the natural world, landscapes, seascapes, wildlife and images of nature dominate her portfolio. Ranging in style from bold saturated abstracts to soft, textured tones, her work reflects an unending pursuit of new ways of seeing. Describing herself as an interpreter who "wants to engage both head and heart," she takes photographs around the world and repaints them digitally by hand into contemporary fine art images.
Additional observations:
Printed for private sale only.

... Alice Gur-Arie

Biography: Alice Gur-Arie is an award nominated, London based artist whose mixed media work has been auctioned at Christie's and exhibited at the Embassy of Iceland, London. It is held in collections in the UK, US, Israel, Germany and Canada. 
Describing herself as an interpreter who "wants to engage both head and heart," she takes photographs around the world and repaints them digitally by hand into contemporary fine art images. She is completely self taught. The concept of "seeing" is at the heart of her practice. Combining photography with digital painting, she invites the viewer to replace the window through which they see the world, with a lens that interprets the world into something that is at once familiar and foreign. Inspired by the natural world, landscapes, seascapes, wildlife and images of nature dominate her portfolio, ranging in style from bold saturated abstracts to soft, textured tones. Her work starts with photographs, taken in foreign locales. In some cases, the mode of transport itself becomes an integral component of the finished image, producing dramatic aerials and magical underwater worlds. Treating a photograph as a canvas, images are digitally "repainted" by hand with a "brush", sometimes in layers, sometimes pixel by pixel. Of her creative approach she says, "What is critical, is understanding that my work is not about digital manipulation or software, but about my vision, and my ability to transform the canvas into an aesthetically compelling, memorable, visual experience."