Gwen Fabricant Westbeth Icon

Join us on June 7 at 7PM in the Westbeth Community Room to celebrate the life and work of Gwen Fabricant, painting, collage/assemblage artist. The evening will feature a filmed interview with Gwen, live tributes from her colleagues, and a brief talk by the artist herself. A presentation of a gift from the Westbeth Artists Residents Council will be followed by refreshments.

Gwen’s Statement:
I work from close observation of objects, in strong daylight, at their actual size. Each object enters the painting when I find it, often as a surprising emblem of raw nature discovered in the context of urban human life. At other times I bring objects back to the city studio from forays in woods or beach. The state of stable preservation, changeability, or fragility of the forms being painted determines the pace of painting. It is generally a slow process.

The compositional unity of these disparate forms takes place gradually, in the course of the painting. Grand forces of gravity, motion, gesture, color and light play out at my will on this intimate scale. An underlying theme of memory, and also an uncanny strangeness, become manifest without any conscious, preconceived plan, from this rigorous process of finding, seeing and recording reality.