Gloria Garfinkel

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Gloria Garfinkel (born 1929) is an American visual artist based in New York.

Work

Gloria Garfinkel studied Apparel Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City from 1947-1949. She realized she wanted to be an artist while taking a 7:30am life-drawing class in the basement of FIT, then on West 24th Street. Since then, she has developed a daily practice creating paintings, sculptures and collaged prints showcase the artist’s interest in the fashion and decorative motifs of Japan.

She is best known for brightly colored, highly patterned works that bridge the gap between sculpture and painting.

As Mary Hrbacek said in a 2015 review of Garfinkel’s work for Artes Magazine:

Garfinkel’s modular process morphs the freshness of Japanese-engendered practices to an accessible post-modern mode of hybrid painterly expression. The works pivot on her extreme creative instinct for extending divergent motifs that inscribe meaning to recycled forms, which mine the limits of the abstract genre. Garfinkel’s ability to balance striking elements in an integral visual harmony brings transformation to the borders of imagination, yielding vibrant works whose fundamental truths probe the similarities between Western and Japanese art forms.

Career

Garfinkel has exhibited internationally for more than 30 years, with solo exhibitions at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, Associated American Artists, and Bodely Gallery, all in New York; Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, N.Y.; The International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, Texas; Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas; Artestudio Sumithra, Ravenna, Italy, and Emerson Gallery Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.