Judith Ghashghaie featured at Rouge Art Gallery

Tuesday, 04 December 2007 22:29

Miami, FL - Rouge Art Gallery at is pleased to announce an art exhibition titled, "Itacas." This show features work of Judith Ghashghaie. A reception will take place on December 8 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the gallery’s new location in the Wynwood Art District at 46 NW 36 St, Loft 3, and Miami, FL 33127. The exhibition is going to be on display until January 10.

Local Miami artist Judith Ghashghaie was born in Venezuela. She moved to the United States 20 years ago. She received a Degrees in: Visual Art (Instituto Pedagogico de Caracas); Latin-American Literature (Universidad Central de Venezuela); Master in Gifted and Talented Students ( Oklahoma City University ). Ghashghaie exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions before coming to Miami two years ago; she is the recipient of awards, including Artist in Residency Of Oklahoma City Art Council; selected artists from this program teach and present lectures and seminars across Oklahoma, state where she lived and worked as a professor in several universities and college for 18 years.

Her mixed media reflects diverse aspect of erotic and political issues as well as the desire for find meaning in human relationships . She uses the path of archetypal icons like shoes, shoetrees, toes, legs, torsos that are universal fetishes that cut across all cultures, societies and times. Ghashghaie’s aesthetic view has to do with movement and transit (both in the ephemeral and transitional state of values) that are full of open and multiple interpretation, particularly since she is a Latin-American immigrant.

Also, her work has to do with active participation, some drawing are supposed to be arranged in the way that people decided. Ghashghaie makes great use of relativity of space, composition, strong lines and strident colors, which mark the content beyond the usual. Art critic John Brandenburg point out that her work “are super realistic and satiric at the same time”… paints, draws, photos, sculptural boxes constructions, collage are hard hitting”

Emphasizing people interaction as well as comparing life with an unknown journey with a destination clever to postpone are ideas in the new series of drawing of the Venezuelan artist who was inspired by Rayuela, a novel wrote by Julio Cortazar and the poem Ithacas by Kostantino Kavafis.

Exhibit is sponsored by : Aixa Nuno and Ruben Maseda Corp.; Collins Liquors, Durant Antiques and Gems; Ordeprint. Suan Glasses Corp. 10 % sales from the exhibit will be donated to Florida Case Management Agency, INC. FCMA is a non-profit organization for disabled. Visit Rouge Art Galley at : www.artrouge.com/new/