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Artist's Statement
There was no grand entrance of art in my life. I had always appreciated books and it was their illustrations that awakened my interest in drawings, prints, and paintings.
Printing was the first expressive form that captivated me and nurtured my inner drive to work with art. I like to feel the marks, the texture that etching adds to the paper. I am inspired by the forms I find in the native plants of my country, (Brazil). Especially from the Cerrado or savanna grasslands with its hardy trees, fruits, hanging seeds and pods. The simplicity derived from the distillation of these elements into a minimal landscape is what moves me.
Painting came shortly after printing. I fell in love with colors that are dissonant, and made them part of my work. I began to distill and simplify shapes in search of the essence of my subjects almost as a pretext to work with paint, building, layer by layer, a space of color.
In art, where almost everything has already been done, I enjoy learning from the grand masters of the past. But it is looking at clean and minimal, contemporary art that I find myself.
I try to reach beyond my limits to bring poetry into my work and satisfy my need to express myself through painting.
Isabel Gouveia - 2005
A arte veio para mim sem grandes explicações. Sempre apreciei os livros, e a partir deles os desenhos, as pinturas e as gravuras.
A gravura foi a primeira forma de expressão a me chamar a atenção e a despertar a vontade de fazer algo em arte. Gosto de sentir as marcas, as texturas do relevo da tinta no papel. Através dela pude fazer algo, inspirado nas formas que vejo na natureza: referências do cerrado, típicas do meu país, das vegetações com suas sementes pendentes, seus frutos, suas marcas no relevo trazendo uma paisagem quase minimalista, que me emocionam pela sua simplicidade.
A pintura veio pouco depois, apaixonei-me pelas cores, essas que causam uma certa estranheza, parte do meu trabalho. As formas foram depurando-se, simplificando-se na busca de uma essência, talvez como pretexto para fazer pintura, de camada sobre camada e construir um espaço de cor.
Na arte, onde quase tudo já foi feito, gosto de aprender com os mestres do passado, mas é olhando para o contemporâneo límpido e mínimo que me situo.
Busco ultrapassar os meus limites, fazendo e colocando na tela a minha poética, o que vem do meu interior, para satisfazer esta vontade enorme de pintar e de expressar algo.
Isabel Gouveia - 2005
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RESUME
Born in Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
FORMAL EDUCATION
Industrial Design – Bachelor’s Degree - Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) São Paulo, SP Drawing, Painting and Etching– Cultural Center ‘Liceu de Artes e Oficios’ São Paulo, SP Printmaker/Etching-Claudio Mubarac/Atelier of the Museum Lasar Segall – São Paulo, SP Paulo Pasta Painting Atelier – Advanced Painting - MUBE – São Paulo, SP Printmaking as Image in Non-Toxic Wonder –Hitoshi Nakazato, WPB, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Florida Stage 2005-06 Season – Donna Tribby Fine Art, Inc. West Balm Beach, Fl 1997 Espaco Cultural do Banco do Brazil – São Paulo, SP 1995 Espaco Cultural da Caixa Economica Federal – São Paulo, SP
GROUP EXHIBITONS 2010 JF Gallery-Gran Opening-WPB, Fl Fibers and Printmaking Studio Exhibition, Armory Art Center, WPB, FL
2009 "EroticaXdeux" - Studio 1608 -West Palm Beach, FL "TAKE OUT" - Brevard Museum, Melburne, FL "Open Air Exhibition - 112 South J Street, Lake Worth, Fl " Native Offerings III" - Pine Jog Environmental Educ. Center-FAU, WPB, Fl
2008 “XIX Art Salon” – Museum Katzen of American University, Washington, DC 4th Biennial Print Exhibition– Northern Arizona University - Art Museum – Flagstaff, AZ “A Sense of Place 2008” - Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art- Augusta, GA Harnett Biennial of American Prints - University of Richmond, Richmond, VA Palm Beach Currents – Northwood Temporary Contemporary – WPB, FL
2007 “Gallery Girls” Mulry Fine Arts - West Palm Beach, FL Palmetto Bay Village Art in Public Places - Palmetto Bay, Miami, FL “Recent Works” My Coffee House Gallery – West Palm Beach, FL “The Masters’ Mystery Art Show” Art Basel (satellite) Florida Int’l. University/Ritz Carlton - Miami, FL
2006 “Mix Works”, North Lake, West Palm Beach, FL “Brand 35 Works on Paper: Borders” - Library Art Galleries - Glendale, CA Art Expressions Anniversary Group Exhibit - Ft. Lauderdale, FL “Abstraction” Mulry Fine Arts - West Palm Beach, Fl Splashlight Studios South – Miami, Fl
2005 All Media Juried Art Exhibition - Texas Visual Arts Association Irving, TX “Contemporary Drawing” - T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center Montpelier, VT Honorable Mention Gallery International All Media Competition – Gallery International Baltimore, MD 2004 Special Art Gallery – Private House – Gables Estates, FL
2002 Primera Mostra “Atelier de Pintura”– Museu Brasileiro Escultura Marilisa Rathsam, São Paulo, SP Macabiadas – “Esportes e Uniao entre Povos” – Casa da Gravura Brasileira /Primera Bienal de Gravura de Santo Andre – Santo Andre, SP “Só Gravura” – Andriana Penteado Contemporary Art – São Paulo, SP
2001 “Conduta da Imagen” – Prometo Linha Imaginaria – Museu Metropolitano de Arte – Curitiba, PR “Uma Roca, um Oasis” – Atelier de Gravura – Museum Lasar Segall- São Paulo, SP
1999 “Sao Paulo Gravura Hoje/Mostra Rio Gravura” – Palácio Gustavo Capanema/FUNARTE – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
1998 “Multiplas Tendencias” – Fundacao Cultural – Uberaba, MG
1997 “Coneccão III” – Núcleo de Arte Contemporanea UFPB - João Pessoa, PB “Coneccão III” – Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Pernambuco - Olinda, PE
1996 9th International Exhibition “Small Graphic Forms” – Poland LODZ 96 VII Salao de Artes Plasticas – SAMAPE – João Pessoa, PB
1994 Etching exhibition at Santa Cecília Metropolitan Subway Station São Paulo, SP
1990 10th Anniversary Exhibition of its Cultural Center – Liceu de Artes e Oficio Galeria SESI/FIESP – São Paulo, SP
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS 2007 Collector’s Corner: Gallery shows off “New Works” By Christine Davis – Palm Beach Post – November 04 2006 Discover Local Artist: Abstracts simplifying nature. Palm Beach Post: October15 2005 “Isabel Gouveia: Gravurista e pintora de emoções", Acheiusa.com. Ano 5 Edicao 115
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