Gigi Horr Liverant
Pastel and Oil Paintings
Gigi has painted in oils and pastels for over thirty years in a continuing exploration of the evocative effects of both natural and artificial light. Her continuing work has explored the chroma of afternoon and nocturnal illumination to recent images celebrating the exuberance of the familiar and inconsequential moments that crowd our daily landscape. She is compelled to maximize the extraodinary within the ordinary, asking the viewer to reevaluate their perceptions. In addition to the pastels for which she is known, Gigi has developed her work in large-scale oil and oil stick paintings. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors and is represented by several galleries as well as in public and private collections. | |
Judy Birke of the New Haven Register states: "Liverant, one of the best artists in the region, continues to investigate the landscape of everday life — buildings and barns, highways and byways — exploring the interplay of light, atmosphere and a sense of time, in dazzling forays of color, texture and movement that capture fleeting moments with a freewheeling exuberance that never loses its intensity."
“Bold and broad, with an eye sharply tuned to the drama of light and shadow, Liverant’s pastel and oil stick drawings resonate with intense physicality and vitality. Activated by riots of densely textured high-key color and an easy expressive sense of materials, Liverant makes every inch of surface consequential.” Hank Hoffman of the New Haven Advocate states: "Liverant manages well the crackling tension between the sizzle of her zigzag mark making and the meditative resonance of her imagery. Even highway scenes evoke not the growl and belch of engines but the peaceful glide of encapsulated beings through space, moments alone with one’s thoughts."
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