STATEMENT

I create my paintings through a process of layering–layers of textures, colors, media, and mood.  Typically I start with collage, and after a series of choices the final composition eventually ends in a place I couldn’t have imagined at the outset. Although they’re often used purely decoratively, flowers are a rich subject matter used by artists for centuries to depict life, death, and every emotion in between.  The flowers I paint represent the subtleties of interpersonal relationships, as well as a celebration of femininity.

 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Poem 88  (Atlanta GA) Jane Eyre and Emancipation: twelve responses, Jan 2020

Trinity Mercantile (Decatur GA) featured artist for Decatur Arts Festival, May 2018

Industrious (Atlanta GA) featured artist, Nov 2017-Jan 2018

Scout and Arrow (Atlanta GA) featured artist Nov 2017

Anthropologie collaboration prints (online) Jul 2017-Dec 2017

Alice Milton Gallery (Boylston MA) Jun 2017-Aug 2017

 

PRESS

Create! Magazine May 2017      https://createmagazine.com/read/gabriela-ibarra

Common Creative Jan 2017      https://www.commoncreativatlanta.com/?p=8322

Home and Garden magazine, Netherlands Sep 2015

Artistic Moods Oct 2015     https://www.artisticmoods.com/gabriela-ibarra/

Design Crush Jun 2015     http://designcrushblog.com/2015/06/25/gabriela-ibarra/

Jealous Curator May 2015   https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2015/05/12/gabriela-ibarra/ 

 

AWARDS

AmericasMart “Outstanding Visual Display”  Best of Category July 2018

 

SOLO SHOWS

Baisden Gallery, Tampa FL Sep 2002, Sep 2006, and Mar 2010

Meyer Gallery, Park City UT Feb 2007, Mar 2008

J Carole Gallery, Taos NM May 2003

Represented by Baisden Gallery, Tampa FL

Please contact me for commissions or collaborations.