GILIANE BADER
ABOUT - MY PROCESS AND JOURNEY
I choose the freedom and challenges of abstract work to convey what I feel.
The fauna and flora, colors, patterns and light qualities I encountered in Africa, the Mediterranean and Tahiti flow throughout my work.
Observation – through photography, pattern and system analysis –
remains a common thread throughout my various occupational pursuits.
I developed a strong studio practice over the last few years. I work daily, on several paintings at a time, as each of them inform the others even though they may differ. Before starting a series I decide on a palette I am attracted to at that specific time -- weather, seasons or feeling having their own influence. I work with acrylic paints, graphite, collage, painted papers. As the works evolve, over many layers and much experimentation, a design reveals itself and I start refining colors and details. Even as a composition develops more consciously, it retains the feel of spontaneity and intuitive awareness of the initial moment. This is often the time when I "accidentally" find an element of collage lying around or decide to make a mark with another tool that brings the work together. A work starts without any inkling of outcome; its development is a fascinating journey of self-discovery.
A self-taught artist, who pursued art classes until 16, I chose to explore art without constraints, going with the flow. I received additional art training more recently, with contemporary artist Nicholas Wilton. After a forty-year hiatus, and to honor a promise made to myself, I am back full time as a creative artist since 2018.
French born, in the Sahara, starting schooling in Germany, I traveled back with my family to our native country as a civil war emerged. Back to France a few years later, along with many refugees, I welcomed my family’s relocation to Tahiti a year later. This was a time of healing and powerful reconnection with nature. Growing up, I developed a visceral bond to the lands surrounding me – crabbing in the Mediterranean, watching tropical fish fluttering around corals in the Tahitian lagoon, swimming in the Congo River, exploring a copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
After traveling on my own to Africa, Turkey, Egypt, and the West French Indies, I settled in Boston, Massachusetts, between the Charles River and the Atlantic Ocean. My recent move to California in Playa Del Rey, near the Pacific Ocean, in June 2023, took me away from the studio for an extended period -- I am excited to be painting again!
Buying original art is a special experience, and I do look forward to talking with you and answering any questions about the piece you are interested in.
RECENT EXHIBITS
2024
TUNING FORK online juried show, LAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - Serp 28 - Oct 18, 2024
THUNDER OF MEANING online juried show, LAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - May 18 - Jun 21, 2024
TURF online juried show, LAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - Apr 6 - Apr 26, 2024
POP ABOVE ALL online juried show, LAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - Mar 16 - Apr 5, 2024
REPUTED online juried show, LAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - Feb 17 - Mar 15, 2024
SMALL TIME online juried show, LAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - Jan 26 - Feb 16, 2024
INDISTINCT CHATTER online juried show, LLAAA Gallery Gallery 825 - Jan 6 - 26, 2024
2022
Small Works Sale, 650 E Kendall Street Gallery - December 3 - 13, 2022
Mary Schein Fall Salon, Kathryn Schultz Gallery - September 15 - October14, 2022
From Dark to Light, Brickbottom Artists Gallery. - July 14 - August 20, 2022
Emerging Artists Exhibit, Speedway Gallery, juried show. - July 7 - July 30, 2022
Members Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, juried show March 29 - April 16, 2022
Strategies of Resplendence, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, juried show (online) - January 6 - February 5, 2021
BLUE, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, juried show - November 9 - 27 2021
Members Directory Show Brickbottom Artists Gallery - October 28 - November 21, 2021
Cool, Juried show at Broomfield Gallery in Boston SOWA - August 4 - August 22, 2021
Juried Members Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery - March 2 - March18, 2021
Bodies - Kathryn Schultz Gallery, juried show (online) - January 19 - March 19 ,2021
MEMBERSHIPS
Art2Life Academy
Connected Artists Club
Los Angeles Art Association
Women's Caucus For Art - Southern California
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