abraham gelbart

                                               "Shreddings PAN9"  oil on canvas 20" x 16"

                                                "Shreddings PAN2"  mixed media  18" x 14"

                                     "Shreddings PAN12 ZooBankCredit" mixed media  12" x 12"
                                "Don't leave home without your shreddings / data is important"

"Shreddings" is based on the seriousness of identity theft, in that you should carry the shreddings with you at all times and not leave home without them. The painting above consists of paint strokes symbolizing the shreddings and the barely visible and completely visible numbers and letters indicate the hidden and not so hidden information, symbolizing the data that exists among the shreddings.

                                        "Horace, the Maiden and the Motorhome"  inkjet print

                                                   "PCM-BB Heidi" oil on canvas 60" x 60"

The image above is part of a series entitled PCM-BB, "PanChairMan-Building Blocks".  It is a culmination of parts in which the chair form was the original concept.  The chair image evolved into a comprehensive combination of shapes formulating in a representative composition of the figure.

Although abstracted, the compositions are figurative in appearance and architectural in structure and imply the connectivity between humans. 

As you go through the website you will find other series, for example: the RV Series.  It is a compilation of images exercising the possibility of different textures and colors, using one original image.  The Sphinx series is a formulated image found by dissecting an existing architectural structure in Taos, New Mexico.

Please enjoy yourself.




"Art is the highest form of individualism"

Oscar Wilde

Excerpts from reviews


"Architectural, geometric and formally composed, the paintings are cerebral and contemplative, appealing primarily to the mind rather than the heart."

"The basic premise reflects a study in the balance of forms beside and against each other and of the balance of colors within those forms."

"Clothespins become buildings, buildings grow faces, bicycles rear up like insects - such flights of fancy are readily inspired by Gelbart's solid, brilliantly colored wood, plastic and metal assemblies...."

"The structural shape is long and narrow, like a skyscraper.  The colors are strong and primary.  Sometimes the houses sit in a row on a clothesline: sometimes they are tall birdhouses..."

"The Burden Figure - shrouded, hooded forms like introverted, tormented human beings who had closed in on themselves, physically and emotionally, despite their usual clustering in groups..."

"One has the feeling, in looking at these sculptures, that the artist has 'unburdened' himself of the darker side of human existence and now laughs at it, sharing with us a complex joke on mankind.  Here, also, is an emphasis on American influences, rather than the European ones of his earlier work..."

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