Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Gabriele Gracine has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Gabriele is an award-winning artist based in Colorado, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 30th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Gabriele’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her artworks submitted to this competition.
Gabriele Gracine is a self-taught digital artist, inspired and energized by a proprietary technique that she continuously explores and refines. In 2015, she was in her mid-sixties and navigating a transitional chapter in her life, searching for purpose, unsure of what lay ahead. She could never have imagined how profoundly her life was about to change.
On one ordinary day in September of that year, a simple twist of fate marked the beginning of her journey as an artist. She had recently acquired her first smartphone and was tentatively learning how to use it. She had taken a photo and wanted to remove a portion of the image on the screen. After some trial and error, she discovered the 'crop' feature and successfully edited the photo. Curious about the other unfamiliar icons, she began selecting them at random, intrigued by the visual effects they produced. In that moment, she sensed she was being offered an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, one she could choose to either ignore or explore.
Looking back, she now sees there were countless signs of her latent artistic sensibility—such as her penchant for color coding and an enduring need to express herself visually. Her creative instincts had been hiding in plain sight. With that small, unintentional step, the pieces of a long-standing puzzle suddenly snapped into place. What once felt obscure became undeniably clear, she had found her path.
From the outset, she understood that her greatest weakness was having everything to learn, and her greatest strength was having nothing to unlearn. She embraced these truths wholeheartedly. Free from expectations, she remained resilient, considering every challenge an opportunity to develop her creative skills. She was fueled by unwavering determination, endless patience, and relentless persistence as she laid the foundation for her artistic voice.
As she progressed, so did her trust in herself and in the mystical power of new beginnings. She remained committed to sustaining a positive mindset. Knowing that openness and curiosity were essential to creative growth, she celebrated every small victory, and embraced missteps without discouragement.
For the first two and a half years, she was completely immersed in her craft—devoting up to ten hours every day learning the digital medium and exploring her creativity. When she finally emerged, she had developed the confidence and capability to share her work with the world. She began submitting to exhibitions and showcasing her art at local events near her home in Colorado.
Creating art and sharing her images with the world is her passion. Every aspect of her life has been enriched beyond anything she could have imagined. She is eternally grateful to be what she never knew she always wanted to be...an artist.
I came to understand that my artwork is an autobiographical extension of myself. An attempt to translate who I am and what I represent into visual form - speaking where words fall silent.
My creative process is rooted in the cumulative, often subconscious perceptions shaped by my life's experiences. These experiences become the lens through which my imagery is formed. My work emerges from an ongoing dialog between external realities and internal reflections, serving as emotional resonance of my inner landscape. Each image I create is simultaneously a reflection of the past, a snapshot of the present and a glimpse into the future. As I evolve, my intuition absorbs, integrates and translates my growth into creative expression. Working intuitively liberates me from the stifling burdens of control and expectations while strengthening my creativity. Mystery, surprise and delight are intrinsic to both my process and my outcomes.
My creative journey begins with excitement, anticipation and curiosity. I pursue shapes, patterns, colors, light, shadow and texture as they emerge. I closely observe my images unfolding gradually and unexpectedly. I employ a wide array of techniques to embed emotional depth into my work, embracing the endless potential of the digital medium that provides me with magical tools to manipulate pixels in ways that reflect my ever-changing inner landscape.
Through both random experimentation and intentional precision, I focus on crafting images that are fluid yet meticulously structured, using contrast, depth, composition and dynamic interplay between lines, textures and forms to evoke visceral responses.
As an artist, I strive to create work that transcends superficial aesthetics and forges a deep, lasting emotional connection with the viewer. My intention is not to mirror my own experience, but to spark a sense of wonder and personal discovery, offering images that function as visual poetry, open to individual interpretation. I hope each viewer finds something uniquely their own in my artwork, an element or an image that stimulates feelings, provokes thought and invites introspection.
I desire to challenge conventional perceptions of reality, believing that blending cutting-edge technology with creative expression to craft immersive, thought-provoking visuals offers others an exclusive viewpoint to an artistic experience. By merging innovation with imagination, I aim to push the boundaries of how we perceive and interact with imagery, creating experiences that are not only seen, but deeply felt.
I'm impassioned to create beauty that resonates on an emotional level. My ultimate intention is to establish a connection with the viewer, a moment of stillness in a fast-moving world, whether subtle or profound, that speaks directly to the soul.
To learn more about Gabriele and to see more of her digital artwork, please visit her website.
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