Galia Gluckman

Galia Gluckman creates large-scale, multi-dimensional artworks through the layered use of hand-cut strips of paper. Born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, Gluckman initially studied and worked as a Fashion Designer in London and New York, before focusing solely on Fine Art from 2004. The intuitive process of cutting and pasting paper takes the viewer on an oscillating journey between order and disorder. Each strip of paper is painted, cut and attached, layer upon layer. Gluckman is mostly instinctively guided to form shapes and structures that build upon themselves to become new forms. Unveiling the intricacies, the viewer is invited to observe both minute details and majesty of scale. The artist has developed an intimate relationship with her material, working rhythmically with the meditative construction of each work. In a world increasingly driven by automation and syntheticism, Gluckman is intent on exploring and amplifying the human qualities that machines cannot replicate. It is the unveiling of the intricacies that create a sense of stillness and quiet that capture interest. The cutting and reassemblage of the artist’s material is reflective of the shifting binary perceptions of all things; we are creatures of balance and imbalance. Living requires us to construct, deconstruct and to then rebuild our existence constantly.

Gluckman has exhibited at Untitled Art fair in Miami, investec artfair in Cape Town and the Sydney Contemporary in Australia.  The artist has had solo and group exhibitions with SMAC Gallery, Everard Read, Ebony and Southern Guild in Cape Town.

Gluckman is the recipient of the 2009 Global Green Artist Challenge award, which was exhibited at the International ArtExpo in New York City, USA; as well as the 2010 New York Public Artwork Commission which was commissioned by the Great Neck Plaza Mayor, Jean Celender, in New York City, USA. Gluckman is represented in a number of private and corporate collections, namely the Hilton Hotel Group in the USA; Galila Barzilai-Hollander’s private collection in Belgium; the Dame Anita Roddick Collection in the UK; and a number of private collections in Australia, the UAE, Israel, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the USA. In South Africa, these collections include the Leeu Collection Franschhoek; M&C Saatchi Abel; Rupert Collection; South African Presidential Collection; Spier Arts Collection; Investec Collection; Galila Barzilaï-Hollander Collection and The Ackerman-Berman Collection.

Galia Gluckman currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.