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[nd2nandalal]

#catalogdesign #catalog #yvettegellis #losangeles #bookcoverdesign #bookdesign #book #books #booklover #graphicdesign #nandalalsarkar (at Raghunathpur, West Bengal, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Ocpo2lOIe/?igshid=isj8fgh54rff

[nd2nandalal]

#catalog #catalogdesign #yvettegellis #losangeles #bookcoverdesign #bookdesign #book #books #booklover #graphicdesign #nandalalsarkar (at Raghunathpur, West Bengal, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6OcaKmlPkz/?igshid=xxs641eacm6f

[lisajakab]

Work by Yvette Gellis.

[billybennight]

Zadik Zadikian stands near the center while Kaloust Guedel, KuBO, Rouzanna Berberian, Gary Brewer, Clayton Campbell, and Yvette Gellis, Andy Moses, Marjan Vayghan Rouzanna, Berberian, Gary Brewer, Clayton Campbell, Yvette Gellis and Gary Paller in no particular order contributed and attended to “WALLS: A Quest For Immersive Space" at Produce Haus. @producehaus #producehaus #groupphoto #instillationart #art #photographerslife #space #artinstallations #artinstallation #artist #artspace #photography #photograph #photographerslife #dtla #dtlaview #photographer #garybrewer #garybrewerart @zadikzadikian #KaloustGuedel, #KuBO #rouzannaberberian #claytoncampbell #andymoses #berberian #YvetteGellis #GaryPaller (at Produce Haus)

[18thstreetarts]

Yvette Gellis in her studio and details of her painting

[18thstreetarts]

IN THE STUDIO with Yvette Gellis

Hi Yvette, how’s it going?

Y: Well.. It’s chaotic. It’s interesting because I’m trying to work on this huge installation in this church that’s in France. It’s a 13th century beautiful space that’s gutted. So I have the whole inside. I want to get a lot of work done in advance because I only have two weeks to really prepare this installation so the more I get done in advance the better. 

How do you begin a painting?

Y: I start out with ideas that are sometimes little tiny thumbnail that are an inch by inch. Sometimes they’re more fleshed out like little collage studies of things but then small paintings develop. And then there’s a push and pull that goes on through the process. I keep trying to layer elements so there’s more depth. Sometimes it just gets too much, too busy and I need to simplify it.

What artists do you look at?

Y: There’s a number of woman artists that I love and I feel when I’m working that I’m in conversation with these women. The German artist Charline Von Heyl - her language that she’s developed around her own painting, they’re so strong and so simple, and I remember that when I get complicated. Also Amy Sillman, Cecily Brown and Joan Mitchell. All these women and I say women because early on people have always compared me to Abstract Expressionists and the German Expressionist etc. And there are a number of German painters, males, whom I love. I really understand the language of Gerhard Richter - you know the painting, when it says it’s finished it’s finished, when it’s not trying to be something anymore then you know. So it’s a weird in-between place all the time with my work. Trying to make good work but yet not trying to make good work, you know? Making painting but not trying to make the painting be the painting you know.