Gali Rotstein: Flying Crooked
Rotstein excavates silhouetted forms from the black washes of her large-scale works on paper. Opens March 12 at Lois Lambert Gallery.
Fluid and playful in her process, the artist allows her materials to inform her exploration. Rotstein adds and removes elements from her collages and paintings as they evolve beyond the state of initial conception into fully articulated pieces. Using shadow, light, and the residual image (both temporal and thematic), her forms burst organically through the geometric constraints of the picture plane.
The image of the monarch butterfly is the primary symbolic motif found throughout this body of work. Inspired by the Robert Graves poem “Flying Crooked,” Rotstein draws a parallel between their migratory journey and her own immigration from Israel. Her transformative art process echoes the metamorphosis of a skin-shedding caterpillar in the chrysalis to a fully formed monarch.
For Gali Rotstein, art making involves both sensuality and rationality. She is currently intrigued by classical Spanish still lives and is informed by serendipitous life events as she engages in her art making. Each work exudes the enthusiasm, research, and knowledge that this artist brings to her choice of materials and execution of the work. The result is a powerful display of emotion and skill evident in this collection of work.
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