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gabbi culham putnoki

Artist member since 2020
Toronto , Ontario

Gabbi Maria is a young Canadian artist, born in the town of Perth, Ontario. She has spent the last three years at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, refining her skill set, and developing a cohesive body of work. She works primarily with oil paint, creating large scale portraits and figurative works. Fusing non-naturalistic colors along with flesh tones, she gives the figures a radiance of fluorescent pinks, bright blues, and deep purples. Her work is an expression of femininity through a woman's eyes using the figure as the subject. She paints the female form with both platonic and sexual undertones which both embrace sexuality as well as challenge the immediate sexualization of the female nude. Embellished with colors and fantastical backgrounds it is important the model dictates the painting. Her bright synthetic colors allow the subject to be seen in terms of its painterly qualities, diverging focus from their nakedness and allowing their bodies to be appreciated as art. Gabbi has participated in several exhibitions, including β€œ40 under 40” at the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, and the OCAD Florence Exhibition β€œScusa”.


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2019

Florence, Italy OCAD U Campus
Scusa

2019

Perth Onatrio, Top Shelf
Moonshine Festival Live Bottle Painting

2020

Toronto ON, Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery
β€œ40 Under 40” Exhibition

Accolades
2019

Andre N. Beaulieu
CPSW Watercolor Media Symposium

Education
4

OCAD U
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting

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