Gigi Horr Liverant
Gigi's work is inspired by the familiar and inconsequential moments that crowd the landscape daily. With a visual memory bank that is constantly bombarded with fleeting observations collected and inventoried, she translates and reconstructs these ideas later onto a two dimensional surface. By painting these responses to ordinary events her goal is to to engage the viewer to see this inconsequential scene with a fresh vision, to ask the viewer to reevaluate their own perception. Using either oil paint or pastels, Gigi uses the optimal combination of color, line, shape and balance to create an image that provokes a new awareness of our environment. The artist's personal history is embedded into the scene and likewise the observer brings theirs. In that moment of artist and viewer collaboration a connection is made.
Judy Birke of the The New Haven Register states:
“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.” In her September 2005 column, A Portrait of The Artist As A Commuter, Beth Dufresne of the New London Day states:
“ ... every canvas beamed an intense sensation of deep color; with patches of almost blinding light.”  Gigi has painted in oils and pastels for over thirty years in a continuing exploration of artistic expression through imagery celebrating both natural and artificial light. Recent work has expanded both chromatic palette and subject matter by celebrating the extraordinary possibilities of the inconsequential.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including First Prize Connecticut Women Artists, Best in Show Connecticut Pastel Society, the Andrew Giffuni Memorial Award at the Pastel Society of America Annual Exhibition in 2009 and the Diane Bernhardt Gold Medal Award at the PSA Annual Exhibition in 2000. She is a Pastel Society of America Master Pastelist and a Signature Member of the Connecticut Pastel Society. Liverant has also been awarded important national and regional commissions including the Cow Parades in both New York, West Hartford and Boston, the Whale Trail in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island and murals at multiple locations of the Connecticut Savings Bank. She is much sought after teacher and lecturer in the Southeastern Connecticut area.
Gigi’s paintings are included in the collection of the Lyman Allyn Museum, Connecticut College, Pfizer, Three Rivers Community-Technical College and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, in addition to private and corporate collections nationally. Liverant exhibits her work at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven and the Granary Gallery on Martha's Vineyard as well as numerous juried group exhibitions throughout the region. She attended Paier College of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Gigi Liverant lives and works in Connecticut.
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