GABRIELLE BENOT

"THE CONVENTIONAL DEFINITION OF REALITY AND THE IDEA OF NORMAL LIFE MEAN NOTHING."

- SIGMAR POLKE

As a multimedia artist, I love working with a variety of styles and keep up the tradition of experimental art techniques of the great masters such as Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke, and James Rosenquist. Whether it is an aesthetically pleasing high art, thought-provoking conceptual minimalism, or just a visually ambivalent mixture of things, I try to create a collision of high and low culture.

At the heart of my practice lies the 'Guscio' technique - a signature multimedia methodology I developed that breathes tactile life into the canvas. By freely mixing wet and dry brushes, palette knives, oil pastels, and textured pastes, I build profound sculptural layers that demand to be felt as much as they are seen.