Celine Gabrielle

I love bright, bright colours, in big hunks and chunks. Details zoomed in on. Light and shadows, folded-in-on itself to present something altogether different but recognizable. Alluring and intriguing. Never boring. Always engaging. Right now that comes out as oil paintings, on big canvases of close-up slightly abstract and incredibly crisp at the same time.

As a child of the 80's/90's not only was I influenced by the bold in your face neon colours, big shoulder pads and modern technology take over, I was also greatly influenced by both my baby boomer parents and my grandparents. I'm very inspired by pop culture, fashion, style, design and architecture across many generations as far back as the 1920's art deco and flapper girls right through to the 2000's mega stars like Beyonce and the haute couture trends of today. As a self taught artist I'm influenced by the well known artists I had access to, many popularized in pop culture like Tamara de Lempicka, Rene Magritte, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso.

My work takes from my obsession with fashion and that the clothes we wear is how we tell the world who we are, or maybe who we aspire to be. Sometimes it speaks to a time in our culture and can connect us to a time or place. It tells...

Self taught.

2021 Salt Spings National Art Prize Exhibit, Salt Springs, British Columbia
2021 Superfine Art Fair, New York City, USA
2021 Something Completely Different, VANS mentorship exhibit, The Craig Gallery
2021 ALONE, group show, Acadia University Art Gallery, curated by Dr Laurie Dalton, Wolfville NS
2021 Vivrant Thang, solo show, Tides Contemporary Art Gallery, Kentville NS
2020 The Other Art Fair Los Angeles Online Studio, (virtual fair due to Covid-19)
2020 Congruence, Summer Juried Online Exhibition,
juried by gallerist Bridgette Mayer
2020 Superfine (Wo)man NYC E-fair
2020 The Artist Project Toronto featured as an Untapped Emerging Artist, juried
2020 Member of Tides Contemporary Gallery artist collective
2019 "Squares of Stickyness" group show, Argyle Fine Art
2019 “28th Annual Acadia Art Exhibit” group show, Acadia University Art Gallery
2018 “Pre-Shrunk” group show, Argyle Fine Art
2018 “Under the Influence” group show, Argyle Fine Art