Gigi Horr Liverant
Primary Medium: Pastel
Other media: Paint
The Crashing Boar Studio
Neighborhood : East Hampton
Email: mail (at) gigiliverant (dot) com
Website: http://www.gigiliverant.com
Artist Statement
Gigi Horr Liverant
My work is inspired by the familiar and inconsequential moments that crowd our visual landscape daily. I keep a visual memory bank that is constantly bombarded with fleeting observations that are collected and inventoried to be translated and reconstructed later on a two dimensional surface. By painting these responses to ordinary events I want to engage the viewer to see this inconsequential scene with a fresh vision, to ask the viewer to reevaluate their perception and notice the sunlight eroding the traffic on the highway or the streetlight transforming the parked car. Using either oil paint or pastels, I search for the optimal combination of color, line, shape and balance to create an image that provokes a new awareness of our environment. I bring my personal history to the scene and likewise the observer brings theirs. In that moment of collaboration we connect.
Other media: Paint
The Crashing Boar Studio
Neighborhood : East Hampton
Email: mail (at) gigiliverant (dot) com
Website: http://www.gigiliverant.com
Artist Statement
Gigi Horr Liverant
My work is inspired by the familiar and inconsequential moments that crowd our visual landscape daily. I keep a visual memory bank that is constantly bombarded with fleeting observations that are collected and inventoried to be translated and reconstructed later on a two dimensional surface. By painting these responses to ordinary events I want to engage the viewer to see this inconsequential scene with a fresh vision, to ask the viewer to reevaluate their perception and notice the sunlight eroding the traffic on the highway or the streetlight transforming the parked car. Using either oil paint or pastels, I search for the optimal combination of color, line, shape and balance to create an image that provokes a new awareness of our environment. I bring my personal history to the scene and likewise the observer brings theirs. In that moment of collaboration we connect.
Selected Works
|  Studio - 2009 - Oil - 32"x 40"  Hartford Tunnel - 2009 - Pastel - 22"x 40"  Fieldhouse, Franklin - 2010 - Oil - 36"x 48"  77 Skiff Avenue - 2010 - Oil - 36"x 36"  Speed Limit - 2009 - Pastel - 20"x 40"  Asylum Street Exit - 2009 - Pastel - 24"x 24"  Barn with Floodlight - 2009 - Pastel - 22"x 40"  Porch Light - 2006 - pastel - 28"x 34" |
Artist Bio
Gigi Horr Liverant
Gigi has painted in oils and pastels for over thirty years in a continuing exploration of artistic expression through imagery celebrating both natural and artificial light. Recent work has expanded both chromatic palette and subject matter by celebrating the extraordinary possibilities of the inconsequential.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including First Prize Connecticut Women Artists, Best in Show Connecticut Pastel Society, the Andrew Giffuni Memorial Award at the Pastel Society of America Annual Exhibition in 2009 and the Diane Bernhardt Gold Medal Award at the PSA Annual Exhibition in 2000. She is a Pastel Society of America Master Pastelist and a Signature Member of the Connecticut Pastel Society. Liverant has also been awarded important national and regional commissions including the Cow Parades in both New York, West Hartford and Boston, the Whale Trail in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island and murals at multiple locations of the Connecticut Savings Bank. She is much sought after teacher and lecturer in the Southeastern Connecticut area.
Gigi's paintings are included in the collection of the Lyman Allyn Museum, Connecticut College, Pfizer, Three Rivers Community-Technical College and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, in addition to private and corporate collections nationally. Liverant exhibits her work at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven and the NAC Gallery in Norwich as well as numerous juried group exhibitions throughout the region. She attended Paier College of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Gigi Liverant lives and works in Colchester, Connecticut.