Visual Art – Jersey City
Celia’s expressive and exuberant paintings belie the specificity and rigor of their making. Through hand gestures that appear improvised and loose, her work engages with complex issues inherent to the practice of painting: the orientation of ground and forms, the relationship between colors and the tension between elements tangible and conceptual.
Her approach has been discussed in the context of Provisional Painting, a style of painting that favors looseness and intentional inconclusiveness. Celia’s powerful yet delicate touch endows her work with an exuberance that finds its expression in dramatic color combinations and organic forms.
Celia was born and raised in NYC and currently resides in New Jersey. She graduated from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, and immediately immersed herself in the creative scene in New York. Curious by nature, Celia has spent the past 20 years cultivating creativity in her life and her work – first as a fashion designer, then through visual merchandising and interior design. In 2013, Celia came back to fine art, creating her first body of work in 18 years.