Jennifer Gabbay

Peter Schjeldahl American Art Critic, Author said "the only thing that I am a world expert in is my own experience".

Born in Sydney, Australia. Resided in New York City 18 years.

As a Blue Mountains artist, my artistic practice combines observations from travel and personal experiences of everyday surrounding beauty.

By reimagining subjects through the development of my own painting language is the essence of my work.

My painting style is to disintegrate shapes and colours into fragments, a process of applying paint meticulously like pieces in a puzzle, thereby allowing images to develop like broken worlds pieced together for diffusion and distortion, movement and rhythm.

The paintings’ themes can be figurative but are mostly of the floral and landscape world via energy and vibration.

I have been a three-time finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Award for women artists and a selected finalist + invited artist in many other exhibitions.

Works are painted in oil on board, a support that lends itself very well to my work through the blending of colour saturation; this breeds lushness. The working process, an immersion of self, directs me to meticulously apply fine brushstrokes. Gradually the work comes into focus fro...

EDUCATION
2006-2011 Cert + Diploma Fine Arts TAFE WSI Nepean Sydney
2003 Expressive Abstract Paint. Summer School CSU Bathurst
1986-1990 Art Students’ League New York USA - William Scharf
1965-1969 John Ogburn Studio Sydney; Joe Rose Studio Sydney
1963-1965 Studies with Prof. Maximillian Feuerring Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Day Gallery Blackheath
2015-2017 Day Gallery Blackheath
2010 Sara Roney Gallery Sydney
2009 Event Horizon Gallery Katoomba
1997 ‘Carousels I’ Australian Consulate-General New York USA
1996 ‘Portraits & Poses’ ACG New York USA
1995 ‘Stillness & Movement’ ACG New York USA
1994 ‘Mostly Faces’ ACG New York USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
2014 Finalist Fisher's Ghost Art Award
2013 Finalist Blacktown City Art Exhibition
2013 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award Sydney
2013 The Milk Factory Gallery Bowral
2012 ‘The Idea of Water’ Blacktown Arts Centre
2012 COCO’s 2012 Contemp. Colourists Blackheath
2011 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award Sydney
2011 Blacktown City Art Exhibition Blacktown
2011 ‘The Great Unknown’ Exhibition Artsite Sydney
2011 Finalist Calleen Art Award Cowra
2011 ‘Lay of the Land’ University of Western Sydney
2010 Blue Mountains Art...

Exhibited in New York, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and the Blue Mountains