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Email PageCream & Crack: Mercurial Equilibrium
September 20, 2007- October 13, 2007
Reception: September 20, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Angelika Schubert
Merge Gallery
205 W 20th St Angelika Schubert No.1880 |
Her artistic talent has been formed surrounded by endless inspirational art scenes in Vienna, Austria. She started to paint, create, cut and sew when she was quite young, and those talents and passion contributed to her fashion and design career in her later days. After two decades away from the canvas, Angelika has made a triumphant return into the painting world.
Are these abstract paintings trying to be representational or figurative works trying to be abstract? The question is posed in all her works but it is transcended. The subterfuge used in these paintings is to give figurative reference to what are exquisite abstract paintings. Angelika’s powerful abstract themes capture the eye with dynamic, strong expression and bold use of color. However, it does not end as soon as one views the piece, but, rather, the image keeps twirling, flowing, curving and spreading its own colors, forms and energy. The organic movement of central image challenges the viewer as to whether he or she is experiencing a two- or three-dimensional painting.
It is apparent that Angelika emphasizes, not only the finished product, but the actual process of painting—it is a journey she takes us with her long after the paint has dried. She is fearless in how she interacts with the paint, the canvas and her tools; and she paid attention to the physical qualities of the paint itself, its texture, color and shape.
ARTIST BACKGROUND
Born in Vienna/Austria, Angelika Schubert was surrounded by beauty from the beginning. Beauty of the city, the opera, the ballet, the everyday ‘Viennese life’, with its coffee houses, artists, and endless conversation. While she didn’t know it at the beginning it was to imbued her with a flare for art, design and fashion that have shaped her life. Moreover, her first attempt to paint was at the age of three.
Six years at the Hetzendorf Palace fashion institute affected her greatly. She was surrounded by beauty and history, and voraciously absorbed all aspects of the curriculum. She learned to create costumes out of paper mache and was introduced to other unusual fabrics. She was taught to use anything and everything for creations, to use the mind, to fantasize and to be practical and not to be afraid to try new approaches. She had the luck of being with a small group of scholars, and was so much inspired by the fabulous teachers. At the age of 20 she graduated from “Hetzendorf”.
Again, she started with her fashion designs. First freelance, but eventually deciding to form her own company. Collections were sold to Maxfields, Barney's, Wilkes Bashford and Macy’s in San Francisco. But when a point was reached that it became necessary to expand the business she opted out of such financial burden preferring to stay close to her creative soul so she chose to close business and moved onto a next venture.
In 1985, she opened CELESTINE, a hair, makeup and styling agency in Los Angeles. It soon became one of the top agencies in a highly competitive field and in 1993 she expanded Celestine to Seattle.
Angelika is the President and Owner of Art House Management. Art House Management was formed in 2000 and it became a ‘boutique’ agency representing photographers, fashion stylist, set-designers, prop stylist, makeup artists and hair stylists.
“My NY lifestyle was very different to my LA lifestyle. With many weekends alone in the city, I decided, one Sunday morning, to buy myself a canvas and to start what I always wanted to do the most, to paint. This was the beginning of my arts ‘career.’ I started spending every weekend in my loft painting, not only days but most of the nights as well. Finally all the years of being restrained from my true love towards paintings was lifted. When not only my friends but also all sorts of people liked my art this served to inspire me even more. When I sold my first painting I was in ecstasy.
Using my interest and ability in photography, I am currently looking for subjects and designing shots that later can become the abstract basis for a new series of paintings. I am fascinated by exploring parts of scenes. When isolated from their normal environment they metamorphose into shapes and forms of their own being.”
Through her continuous urge to create, in 2000, she started to paint with her friend Xavier Sequier. They worked together and simultaneously, on one canvas. Ultimately, fourteen paintings were produced for the first gallery showing at City Art in Soho in November 2002, followed by second show at Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts in 2004. Soon after Xavier moved back to Paris and Angelika concentrated seriously on her own paintings. She has been exhibiting at Alina Matsika in Soho for the past year.
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