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Lynda Gentile
New Consciousness of Reality
The vision of reality has drastically changed during the last eighty years. Today we confront a reality
whose essence cannot be explained, nor imagined, nor understood within the frame of our rational mind.
Conventional language, logic and reason, mathematics and geometry have been left without words to describe the
intimate behavior of Nature and the Universe. Our system of thinking is being questioned. Art is a
form of questioning the established concept of reality. Its function is to create a New Mythology, through
which we approach the "New Consciousness of Reality".
Creation is not a steady concept. Everything that comes to existence in the universe is unstable,
relative, interdependent, and interactive and artistic creation follows the same laws. Artistic
creation is the shocking experience of instability; the livingness of the unknown; the reality of the
unknown; the reality of the truth, and the harmony of interacting with the environment.
Each sculpture that springs forth through me is a magical experience. My work
is not preconceived. Rather, it is totally spontaneous. I am aware by feeling only. I do not
question nor judge. Each time I look at a completed creation, it is as if I am seeing it for the first
time. There is always something new and exciting being revealed. Equally, each piece communicates
with the viewer on many different levels...thus opening the door to a new questioning of reality.
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Internationally Acclaimed Award Winning Sculptor
"Lynda Gentile is a profoundly intuituve artist who draws from her own inner sense of reality a
meaning deeper than any surface depiction could express. Her art conveys a compelling sense of personal,
subjective reference which nonetheless taps a universal vein. Gentile's compositions are clearly spontaneous,
rather than deliberately preconceived, yet they contain an element of inevitability. Working most frequently
in alabaster, a peculiarly sensitive and diverse material, she goes beyond respect for its inherent properties and
fuses her aesthetic instinct with the stone, making her work a natural expression of its physical character. Like
Michelangelo, she "frees" the form from its raw material, allowing the figure to emerge from the block
which imprisons it. The profoundly emotional power of her suggestive shapes derives, in part, from her
revitalization of universal form without giving it precise identity. The teasing ambiguity of Lynda Gentile's
figures forces the viewer to participate in the creative act which gives them birth."
--- Dennis Wepman, Manhattan Arts Magazine
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| Las Olas Art Center, Artist in Residence |
2003 |
| Renee Russo Gallery -- NM |
2002 |
| Peterson Bay -- AK |
2000 - Present |
| Windswept Gallery -- ME |
2000 - Present |
| Welcome Home Gallery -- NY, NY |
1999 - 2002 |
| United Nations -- NYC |
1998 |
| Coconut Grove Art Festival -- FL |
1997 |
| Boca Museum of Art, The Artist's Guild -- FL |
2001 - Present |
| Ninilchick State Fair -- AK |
2004 - 2005 |
| 11th Annual Cornell Museum Exhibition -- FL |
2004 |
| Broadway Gallery -- Fort Lauderdale, FL |
2004 |
| Serious Studios -- Miami, FL |
2003 |
| Boca Museum of Art -- Boca Raton |
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| Boca Museum of Art, The Artist's Guild -- FL |
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| Armory Art Center -- West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Metropolitan Museum -- NYC |
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| New Jersey Star-Ledger, Critics Choice -- NJ |
| Manhattan Arts Magazine, "Artists in the 1990's",
Alexandra Shaw, Dec 1990 - Jan 1991 |
| Manhattan Arts Magazine, "Artists in the 1990's",
Dennis Wegman, May - June 1990 |
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