Drawings & Paintings by
Sandra Mack Valencia & Galia Offri
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A Need to Worry - Galia Offri
Galia Offri, The Ogre's Daughters, detail, Watercolors, 2008
Galia Offri is an Israeli artist living in New York since 2005. Galia received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem in 2003. She then worked as a senior art instructor in the Petach-Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been exhibited since 2003 in New York, Berlin and Israel. In 2008 she had her first solo show in New York City, with a cover article in the Manhattan Times.
'Memory Swamp' - a recurring theme in Galia's work, is a repository where personal demons and memories collide. When the dramatic event is done, all that is left in the painting are the traces of the aftermath. Watercolor paintings and drawings portray the silence in strong, alluring colors and movements. Underneath the stiff appearance of the figures and interiors, memories awake.
Drawings from the Inside Out - Sandra Mack Valencia
Sandra Mack Valencia, Blow, ink & transfer on paper, 2008
Sandra Mack-Valencia grew up in Colombia, where under the smell of oil paint, turpentine and linseed oil in her father's studio, she developed a passion for the arts, in particular for painting and drawing. She moved to New York in 2000 and finished her MFA at Hunter College in 2007. Sandra's work has been exhibited since 1999 in museums and institutions in Colombia and New York. She received the Nathalie Angles Award in 2007 and the Sommerville Arts Prize in 2008.
Most of Sandra's recent works are a combination of transfers and drawings on paper. Images, like photographs of relatives and close friends are chosen based on the emotional bonding with the people they are related to, and with the hope to go beyond the scope of personal biography, they are transferred, cropped, blurred, or totally modified through the drawing composition. The new images are the result of both an emotional and an aesthetic combination, with sometimes a "hint" of humor.