FIGURATIVE ARTIST

VERONICA GALATI

VERONICA GALATI 

Figurative Artist -Drawings. Paintings. Sculptures

Artistic Achievements

Art in America's Art Critic, Dominique Nahas Essay, "Veronica Galati's Lines of Sight

in her Arts Forum Gallery Exhibition brochure, 1999 (Reprinted below)

Who' s Who of America Women, 1996 -1997

Encyclopedia of Living Artists, Biography and Painting, 1Oth edition, CA, 1996

Sculpture Award, Warwick Art League, NY, 1993

Sculpture Fellowship, Sculpture Center Studios, 1986 -1987

Anatomy Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, 1984

Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy painting and sculpture scholarship, 1972

John Myers Painting Scholarship the New School, 1965 -1966

Concours Drawing Prize, Art Student's League, 1963

Museum Curator Awards

Excellence in Painting/International Juried Art Competition -Art Horizons, 1988

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC -Ellen Handy, Curator

Los Angeles County Museum, CA, Ilene Susan Fort, Curator

Art in America, Walter Robins, Art Critic

Honorable Mention/ Art '85 -Kenny Gallery Juried Exhibition, New York City

Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Patterson Sims, Curator

Exhibitions

OASIS 2003 -Nevada Arts Council                                                                 2003

Invitational Slide Exhibition & Presentation

            " Artistic Ability Transcending Visual Disability"

Golf Legend Paintings, Siena Golf Club, Las Vegas, NV                                   2003

Arts Forum Gallery, 24 W. 57th St. New York City Invitational

Drawings and sculpture

Graystone Gallery "Cupid and Angles" Invitational                                            1996

Paintings of Hall of Fame Baseball Players requested by                                  1992-

            Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY                                               1996

The Warwick Art League, sculpture                                                                1995

            The Trotting Horse Museum Exhibitions, Goshen, NY

Classical Figurative Artwork represented by                                                    1993-

            Arts Council of Orange County Middletown Arts Center Exhibitions      1994

Mickey Mantle Restaurant and Sports Bar, New York City                               1992

            sports figures in action paintings

Maxwell Davidson Gallery, (SOHO) New York City invitational                        1992

Marcoleo Ltd., New York City, one woman show                                    1986-1987

Sculpture Center Gallery, New York City Invitational                                        1987

Queens Museum, New, Juried drawings                                                           1981

Gloria Cortella Gallery, 41 E. 57th St., NYC, paintings, invitational                      1977

American Painters in Paris, Juried, sponsored by Grace Kelly                            1975

Monaco International Art Exposition, Juried                                                      1965

Corporate Commissions

Finnegan's Wake, New York City -Portrait of James Joyce

Firmenich, Inc., Perfume Industry -Geneva, New York City

Mogubgub Ltd., New York City -Painting for movie industry shown at

Cannes Film Festival

Degrees

Masters of Art, Hunter College, NYC, 1977

            Thesis Mentor -Eugene C Goosen, Art Historian

Bachelor of Science -New York University, 1957

            Creative Arts, Music Education

Artist -­ Teacher

Teacher of Anatomy, Life Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, NY City 1969­ 1988

Voted Outstanding Teacher of Art by the New York City Art Teachers Association 1986

Teacher of Anatomy, New York Academy of Art, New York City

Anatomy for Sculptors, The Sculpture Center, New York City

Teacher of Art, The High School of Art and Design, New York City Bd. Of Education

Oil Painting from Life and Stone Carving for Mature Adults. Siena in Summerlin Las Vegas, NV 2003 - 2006

VERONICA GALATI

 by Dominique Nahas

Veronica Galati's ambition as an artist is two-fold The first is to enter into a discourse regarding the role and limits of figuration while deploying its representational possibilities to suggest masculine virility The second is to engage the viewer with the energetics of the line, devoid of context other than itself

The line, then, is used as a carrier of spatial information, which, while allowing it to capture the space of the signifier of libidinal and energetic impulses of the artist herself, is not allowed to override representation's concerns,

Galati's images are lyrical because they are authentic They are not lyrical because they appear to embody the artist's personality Far from It, for while the line is used as pure event as we well as for its mimetic qualities, the artist charts a difficult course between both shores in order to de-subjectify the experience of actually drawing and sculpting what is actually in front of her This is what lies at the root of the lyricism that we see in Galati's work which suggests a strangeness born out of a sense of ongoing recapitulation, of unending cyclic efflorescence, in this respect we may paraphrase what Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes so movingly of Cezanne and apply his considerations equally to Galati's work: the meaning the artist gives to objects and faces in her paintings presents itself to her in the world as it appears to her, She simply releases this meaning: It is the objects and faces themselves as she sees them which demand to be drawn or sculpted, and Galati simply expresses what they want to say in an intense search for a life principle start­ing from a point outside of the body and moving inwards (rather than the usual reverse), she wants to draw and sculpt what she sees without an impingement of the psychological or the subjective, an immensely ambitious task, Galati, in attempting to reach a deep level of objectivity (while not 

making the error of equating mimetic mirroring with so called "factual" or "indexical" reality), attempts, equally, in voiding the a-priori in the work, The result is a vision in which we see simultaneously its molecular surface and the depicted object in the act of germinating under our very eyes (to borrow Yve-Alain Bois' turn of phrase),

While Cezanne's energetic disposition is a key element in Galiati's work, which is charged and crackling with potency and vitality, her immensely provocative figurative studies recalls Siegfried Salzmann's descrip­tion of the somaticized impulses of yet another giant in the history of modern Western art, a hinge figure that links the nineteenth and the twentieth century, that of Auguste Rodin. Salzmann notes characteristics of Rodin's work which are equally evident in Galati's:"… he understood… that life, and that which life springs from, (is) a kind of motor for the perennial cycles of desire that spin across and thereby propagate, the nat­ural universe…" So too, one may easily view the artist's work as a series of points arranging themselves as lines in space, energy points where the vitalism of sexual potency coalesces and irradiates the pictorial field

Involved with the dynamics of figuration. Galati's two and three dimensional works attempt to capture the experience of life assuming its own dignity and poise without an overt subjective superimposition,

The artist's fluid perceptual weaving of line and space is charged with the presence of absences or voids, purposefully interrupted or unfinished areas, which allow each work to breathe the air it needs it is this evi­dent nurturing of form as it finds its way and weight within the world, and the desire to psychically exca­vate from outside the viewer's stance that compels the gaze and convinces the eye of the authenticity of Veronica Galati's vision"

                                                        Dominique Nahas is a writer, historian, and critic working in Manhattan

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