Starting with a mixture of intuition and objectivity, selected objects, materials, and spaces act as catalysts for experiencing both the sensuality of perception and the provocative feeling of thinking. The balance between thinking, feeling, and active seeing finds embodiment through formal painterly concerns of color, light, shape, texture, space, and composition. In this way observation can mix with imagination and memory, offering aesthetic emotion, room for contemplation, and questions on the construction of painting itself. Sources of inspiration include literature, art history, place, season, and found objects.

"The artist penetrates the concrete world in order to find at its depths the image of its source, the image of ultimate reality." - Flannery O'Conner

Gabriella Soraci received her MFA degree from the University of California at Davis, and her BFA degree from the University of Oregon. She currently lives and works in the Pacific Northwest, USA.