Goodman Gallery is delighted to present Drawn together, a presentation of new paintings by Claire Gavronsky and her first solo show in London. This body of work focuses on the atmosphere shared between women within the worlds that they build and inhabit together: intricate, subtle, complex, close, complicit, reciprocal.
The paintings explore the unguarded naturalness that women share together in their own company, a place absent from the male gaze. The composition and use of materials by the artists highlights resilience, a sense of care and community. In work such as Limbo figures of women exist in a suspended, liminal space, their naked bodies defying objectification as they flaunt a practical lack of inhibition.
Colour ranges from subtle whispers to loud accents, from faintly present to sensory explosions. There is also a move between linear precision and washes that merge bodies into one another. These formal choices model the fusing of the physical and the emotional in the connection between women.
Artworks
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Artist Bio
Claire Gavronsky works in a variety of mediums, most notably in painting and sculpture. Her work often uses visual reference's to historical paintings, and cues are sometimes taken from events from everyday life. Memory, racism, violence against women and children are some of the theme's which run through her oeuvre. Her work also bridge's sometimes complex narratives through overlaid images, and stories which link the past to the present.
In 1981 Gavronsky received a Master of Fine Art in painting, and she moved to Italy in 1985 and has since lived between Cape Town and Tuscany.
In Florence, Gavronsky established, with fellow artist Rosemarie Shakinovsky, an international artist’s residency workshop in Tuscany. After the success of these workshops they founded workshops in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Venda and Botswana. Gavronsky and Shakinovsky often collaborate under the name Rosenclaire. They also collaborate on occasion with William Kentridge. She has exhibited extensively in South Africa, Europe and the United States of America.
