Gloria Katz
Guild Member Salon Show
“Wild Child,” Oil on Canvas, 2013, 20 x 26 in, $500. Inspired by traveling through the Badlands, experiencing the desolation of the landscape. As the painting developed it began to remind me of the struggle to overcome ones own “badland” times and reaching an equilibrium.
Gloria Katz ABOUT: I started painting in my 50s. Having been married to my first husband, an artist, and then my second, also an artist, I decided the affinity must mean that I, too, wanted to paint. And so I did. Living close to the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, I began to take classes working around my office hours as a therapist in Birmingham. I was fortunate to study with Robert Wilbert, Michael Mahoney and Stanley Rosenthal, Mel Rosas, and several others. Following trips to Europe, national parks, and the Western U.S., I began to be amazed at the beauty of the land. Mountains; orange, red, and strange green and yellow rock formations; lush greens of Ireland and fantasy lands took my interest. I saw them as representations of human forms and a vehicle to express emotions. Forms that were sensual, imposing, colorful, and the unusual drew me in repeatedly. My palette is usually bright and intense. Artists such as Georgia Okeefe, The Canadian “Group of Seven,” Frida Khalo, Emily Carr, and other contemporary artists have been influential. THIS YEAR: This year of painting has stunted my desire to paint, turning out only three, with one in the closet waiting for the right time. I have learned apathy does not stimulate my creative juices. CONTACT: gloriakatz1@gmail.com
“Maui Momma,” Oil on Canvas, 1999, 18 x 22 in, $450. Inspired by hill formation in Maui, Hawaii from a photo taken while driving by. Simplicity and sensuality of form draws me in, and from there imagination takes over.
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