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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 theThe 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 activity. 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