Meet Gabrielle Marie Stone, an artist in the Fine Arts Building!
Gabrielle Marie Stone is a Chicago-based contemporary abstract painter. Drawing inspiration from Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist works, Stone’s pieces play with figures, objects, and masses, playfully combining the medium’s historical attempt to represent pictorial scenes with its authentic material quality. Using paint to sculpt space rather than to depict a system of designs, Stone welcomes the viewer into a three-dimensional space, and then promptly revokes the invitation.
It’s through this retraction that Stone turns the viewer into a bird, of sorts, and the painting into a closed window. This also exposes a ...