Website: https://grabarskystudio.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheilagrabarsky
Sheila is a seasoned, classically trained, international award-winning artist who has worked and exhibited across the U.S. for over 35 years in corporate, educational, commercial, and healthcare venues as well as museums and online.Her work is in numerous private and public collections and is currently represented by William Ris Gallery, Oceanport, NY, Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson, NJ, Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Station Gallery, Greenville , DE, Artsy.com and UGallery.com. Seven Grabarsky paintings appear in the Hollywood movie American Pastoral . She also participated in 2018 Art Santa Fe and was interviewed for “A Night In The Art Gallery” on NJDiscover cable. Grabarsky also wrote a published back cover testimonial for a book of art/poetry entitled Leaves of Absence by Sally Brown Deskins, published in February 2016 and is included in an upcoming book by Tova Navarra entitled, New Jersey Masters: A New Legacy of Visual Art.
Classically trained at Syracuse University, Sheila’s work evolved from dark and foreboding expressionistic portraits into gestural, happy abstractions. “I do not have a preconceived notion as I approach my easel. I work in highly colored impastoed layers. Lately I’ve been adhering dried skins of acrylic residue off my palette, as I find them incredibly beautiful and inspiring. Watching as forms literally present themselves as foreground is an amazing experience, always requiring hours of concentrated studio time. I am fascinated by the discovery and the mystery of harnessing chaos into a cohesive composition.”Color creation is very exciting. As a small child I painted a yellow watercolor sun into a blue sky and was thrilled to have accidentally created green, which hadn’t been there before! Iremain awestruck, still, at color creation.”
