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"I see my paintings as tales laden
with suggestion and visual prose, images that might generate familiarity,
but also invoke imaginary spaces. I don't follow any intellectual schema
in my work--my compositions are purely instinctual. The evolution of my
work has taken a natural course, following not only the duality of my cultural
experience, but also the travels of my own life. Most of all, I hope my
paintings transcend culture borderlines into the realm of spirit that is felt
universally."
RECOGNITIONS
Subject of article in the
The Washington Post, "Cesal at Zenith"
"A sense of rushing movement suffuses the oil paintings of Peruvian-born Gloria Cesal. Aptly title 'Ensueños/Dreamscapes,'
her works at Zenith Gallery are fantasy landscapes pulsing with color and energy. Hot reds, vivid greens and glowing shades of gold as
brilliant as stained glass describe figures (mostly women), birds, trees, moons and a host of indeterminate shapes that somehow feel
endowed with symbolism.
In the disjointed, surreal space of these paintings, Cesal's figures and objects seem isolated from
one another. Yet they are joined in an interlocking patchwork of shapes that suggests they are mysteriously, even mystically, connected like the disparate
elements of a dream. But the arbitrary markings in 'Carmela' and the monotonous expanses of violet sky and orange land in 'Lluvia Purpura/Purple Rain' lack
the vibrant tension of Cesal's usual manic acticity. She is at her best in works chockful of action, such as 'Nostalgia', with its trio of women, heads bowed in
separate directions, who stand in a village flaming with pattern and color."
EDUCATION
- Montgomery College, Maryland
- American University, Washington, D.C.
- University of Maryland, Maryland