The Artist Gilf! At Gallerie Swanstrom.

Clockwise: Little Seismic Girl, Empower Equality, To Tehran with Love, The Big Swim, Oh Yeah?

"Motivated by the idea of inspiring people I perhaps will never meet, I hope
to breathe hope into many of the issues we face as a global society. My goal is to
create art that provokes thoughtfulness and motivates a change of the zeitgeist." gilf!

Sometimes, you come across an artist that expresses your exact thoughts. The paintings above are images that definitely represent the times we are living in. In the "The Little Seismic Girl", her bang is a seismic graph at the peak of the earthquake in Fukishima, Japan. Polar bears wearing floaties in "The Big Swim", or the best one, the Statue of Liberty, which is a self portrait of the artist, drinking the Kool-Aid. The artist Gilf! is making a bold statement through the subtlety of her work and I love it!



This past Tuesday, August 21st, I attended a private art reception for the artist Gilf! at Gallerie Swanstrom in Soho. This was a very relaxed and inviting space where the atmosphere was festive and conversations focused on the meanings of the artist work.







The art of gilf! can also be experienced in the streets as well. Street art is becoming a powerful movement where artist are coming out expressing what the people are thinking. With out asking for permission, they are taking what really belongs to all of us and using the streets as their canvas and telling stories where we can no longer turn our heads and ignore.

Learn more about the artist gilf! at Beth Swanstrom, Art Scout.