featured artistGail De Cordova
"Gail de Cordova works with paint and tissue. An Isabelle Allende of visual art, her images invoke ghosts, nostalgia and mysticism together with the very real power of the lands she has known, primarily Cornwall, Spain and France. Her work spans time - from a child to an adult's remembrance. Caught, released or transformed by memory, emotion, colour and form. A language of her own that speaks to us."
Suzanne Jasileck, Suisho Gallery, 1999
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Thursday's artist tip| Regardless if your working method is spontaneous or methodical always try to have materials ready at hand. Nothing more disruptive to the creative mind than the break in concentration and inspiration caused by having to buy or prepare your materials on the spot. |
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selected artist's statement| In 1983 Getahun Assefa Joined the Fine Art School of Addis Ababa. Studied painting, sculpture and graphics, majoring sculpture and holds Diploma with great distinction in 1987. From 1988 – 1995 studies in Russia at the Vasily Ivanov Surikov State Academy of Art in Moscow. There specialized in Monumental painting (mural art) and received with Honor Master of Fine Degree. Also studied computer graphics in Moscow. Since returning to Ethiopia, from 1996 – 2000 assigned as a group leader to computer Graphics and studio craft art Department of the Ethiopian Television.
2001 onward, teaches at the Addis Ababa University School of fine Art and Design in the Department of monumental painting studies and computer graphics.
Participated in several group exhibitions (City Hall in 1987, Sunderland/Moscow in1996, ASNI Gallery in 1999, Taitu International Art Center in 2001) |
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