South Gallery
April 9 through May 31
Reception: Wednesday, May 27, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information.
(Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by a conversation between Gyorgyey, fellow featured artist Fruma Markowitz, and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.)
Flowers, like the figure, have historically been the standard of beauty that artists use to showcase their styles. My interest in flowers and furniture is not the beauty of them but the contrast of their characters against the environments that they are in.
How does their character effect their space, how does it effect themselves — these are the issues which define the success of these paintings.
Every flower I make has an attitude and a reason behind it.
Mari Gyorgyey is best known for her narrative art which flows into book arts, drawings, paintings, computer imagery, and printmaking. She is not afraid to mix all of these techniques to communicate her themes.
Since earning her BFA from RISD, and MFA from UPENN, Gyorgyey has shown her work domestically and internationally with solo shows in Budapest, Hungary, New York, and places in Connecticut. She has won printmaking awards from UPENN, Dharma Silk Company, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking.
Some of Gyorgyey’s unorthodox themes are Dogs in Dresses, Tweens in Weight Loss Camp, and Snippets of the Lives of the Romanov's.
Mari’s artwork is influenced by living in communist Hungary, and suburban America. Her work has the passion of European Expressionism with the visual superficiality of Technicolor films. Her work seems offbeat...but at closer glance is strangely approachable and empathetic to our human condition.
Mari currently teaches mixed media, printmaking and the artists book as well as Procreate for Artists at the Rowayton Arts center.
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