Genevieve Gardella

From childhood I can remember the feeling of being compelled to draw- I heeded this urge just as I did the sensation of hunger or thirst. That pure and direct drive to create becomes dulled through the advance of years and the "necessities of adulthood". But I think the creative urge, in its many forms, remains as necessary as our biological needs, despite our incapacity to fully understand or give credence to it. I seek to honor this urge by eroding my own resistance to it and allowing that direct relationship between impulse and action to exist again.
As humans, we begin drawing before we are even literate. This is true collectively as well as individually. We understand the world through drawing and we think as well as communicate to others through drawing. It's a tool used by all of us.
I endeavor to create a figural representation of the abstract in my work. Like Rene Magritte, who considered himself a thinker before an artist, I am a thinker whose medium is drawing, painting, collage.
I hope my art speaks to you.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Arizona State University 2011