Kentucky Artist Exhibits Work at the Agora Gallery in the Chelsea District of New York
A small Kentucky town has spawned a wonderful artist: Gloria Ferreira. Ms. Ferreira is originally from Georgetown; and truly, a blink of the eye may cause a traveler to miss that small town. But small towns can produce great talent just like their bigger brothers and sisters and Ms. Ferreira is great example of that principle. She studied at the University of Kentucky and obtained from that institution a degree in fine art. She has combined her training and talent and developed herself into a creative and diligent digital artist. Her work can reach deeply into the emotions of the viewer. She has an amazing mastery of color and uses it in her pieces to symbolically emphasize a mood. She often starts with a photograph she has taken that touches her heart and then she lets it build from there, adding other images from her collection and combining them with digital paint techniques until, as if through a Zen-like state of mind, she brings forth a collage of beautiful symbolic imagery. The first time I laid eyes on her work, I was amazed. I could not believe that this was a digital piece. Most of the digital work I had seen up to that point was on paper and bore a sense of graphical skill but seemed to be missing the fine art component. Ms. Ferreira's work is very different from those earlier renditions at the dawn of the digital age. Her work is printed in nice full-bodied color on canvas and stretched on a frame. A protective coating is then applied to the whole piece, giving it the archival quality dear to collector's hearts. The smoothness of her style as it flows over her canvases gives each piece the look of a finely crafted oil painting. One of the most aesthetic ally appealing aspects of her style is that the lines are clean and well marked. Even in her more complex designs, the clean lines stand out and show off the full beauty of the composition. Many of her early works can be seen at her artist's
website.
