Opening Reception - Transcapes: An Exploration of Form

Bruvel’s work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards. Transcapes, which opens September 20, 2008 with a reception from 6:30-9:30pm, focuses on the exceptional depth and range Bruvel’s art and his mastery in a number of mediums, including Fictional Art, Sculpture and Painting. The show runs until October 20th, 2008. While Bruvel’s work resists classification, the artist refers to his style as “visionary.” His subjects are thoroughly modern and futuristic, and reveal figures and landscapes that are equally whimsical and surreal, thought-provoking and enigmatic. His says his work “focuses on uncovering how the conscious and unconscious minds work in tandem throughout the creative process.” In creating Transcapes Bruvel explored how figures and motifs he created in his oil paintings shifted and grew when he transformed them into sculpture and functional art. Transcapes is a solo exhibition featuring Functional Art, ranging from mixed media hand-crafted chess sets to unique furniture in bronze and wood, as well as Sculpture (bronze, stainless steel & mixed media), and Painting (oil & mixed media). Functional Art, ranging from mixed media hand-crafted chess sets to unique furniture in bronze and wood, as well as Sculpture (bronze, stainless steel & mixed media), and Painting (oil & mixed media). Bruvel cites his own intellectual curiosity and interest in “plumbing the world of ideas” as inspiration for not only the work itself, but its natural variety of forms. To this end, he says his studies of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, ancient cultures, mythology, and literature ground his creative process and provide inspiration for his subject matter. “As a thinker,” he says, “I have always has been a seeker. I work to uncover the mystery of the transformative process, what is engendered by growth and metamorphosis in the world of human experience, both conscious and unconscious.” Bruvel’s work gives visual expression to these concepts in the faces and figures emerging surreally from landscapes, coupled with the merging of physical and organic forms in his work to produce an amalgamation that is part human, part idea, part consciousness, and part spirit. “Artists of Gil’s range are rare—he’s imitable, really,” says collector Dr. Daniel Libke. “He is able to transform whatever media he’s using and give it a kind of detail and mastery that is not only extraordinary, but exquisite.” Bruvel has been exhibiting around the world since 1974 in places as diverse as Denmark, Dubai, England and France, Hungary, Japan, Monaco, The Netherlands, and Singapore, and across the US, from Arizona and California, to Hawaii, Florida and New York. His work has received numerous awards and his collectors range from Fortune 500 CEOs and members of royal families to actors and rock stars. Gil Bruvel’s work can viewed at www.bruvel.com. Additional information about the Transcapes exhibit is available at www.cedarsartgallery.com or by calling Gallery Owner and Curator, David Terry at 214-421-2982.