Naomi Szabo

"I wanted to break out of 'the grey' with my colours."
Experiments with different materials, with the powerfully composed fragmented world of shapes and
the strong juxtaposition of colours play a determinative role during the process of my creation. I use mixed techniques in order to find balance by merging them: oil, acrylic and watercolour, texture material or airbrush technique, canvas and wood and I sometimes cut and burn into the fibres. I often divide my paintings: one picture is a compound of two or more pieces. I may even sacrifice my figures occasionally by painting only parts of them to shape a unique composition. This fragmentation can be interpreted by the assistance of the viewer in order to finally put the work together into a whole.
Experimenting with different materials, portraying colors in 3D, trying out different substances as surfaces are all parts of my geniune artistic view.

The harsh compositions of my paintings are combined with sophisticated stories. Since my university years the research of the body of complex symbols and gestures have become my favourite means of expression and the featured motif of my individual faceless body images.
In my paintings I am concerned with the themes of emotions and...

2015 - 2018 Training School for the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Secondary School of Visual Arts, Graphic Design
Budapest
2003-2008 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Arts in Painting
Budapest
2006-2008 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Masters of Arts
in teaching of Art History, Drawing and Visual Communication
Budapest

2022
"7. Godot Art Fair", group exhibition and art expo, Budapest, Godot Contemporary Art Institute
"Saloon Fehérvár 2022/800x1050" group exhibition, Székesfehérvár, St Stephen King Museum
2019
"Fresh Show of Transdanubia" group exhibition of 10 Hungarian County, Balatonalmádi, Magtár Event Centre HU
"Fejér County Show" group exhibition, Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery HU
2018
"Drawings today" group exhibition, Székesfehérvár, Pelican Gallery HU
2017
"12 painters" group exhibition, Budapest, Bartók1 Gallery HU
"Paraphrases" group exhibition, Székesfehérvár, New Hungarian Gallery HU
"Show Yourself" group exhibition, Budapest, Kubik Coworking Office HU
"Fejér County Show" group exhibition, Dunaújváros, Contemporary Art Institute HU
2016
"Winter Show" group exhibition, Székesfehérvár, Pelican Gallery HU
“WITP Artists Exhibition at The Clerkenwell Gallery” group exhibition (Curated by Kate Enters), London, Clerkenwell Gallery GB
“Alternatives” group exhibition, Székesfehérvár, Pelican Gallery, 17. Contemporary Art Festival HU
2015
„Képző” , group exhibition and art tender, Centre for Student Loan Ltd., Budapest, A38 Ship HU
„Harmony”, group exhibition, Szentendre, MűvészetMalom HU
"Fejér County Fall Exhibition" ...