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PAULINE GALIANA

Pauline Galiana is a French-born artist who, having moved from Paris to New York, found the light brilliant and has stayed. She pursued her Master of Fine Arts, at ESAG in Paris and balanced her painting with work as a partner in a design firm, focusing on the challenge of bringing provocative diversity to public institution communication. Her sharp, reflective style is practiced in a multi-disciplinary manner across diverse media and social inputs and focuses on actively engaging the viewer in a conversation. She has worked in arts education of primary-school students in New York City and collaborated with Alex Garcia-Duttmann, the philosopher on the faculty of London's Goldsmiths College of Art. In the US, Galiana has most recently exhibited with Aureus Contemporary Houston/Providence, the Muriel Guepin Gallery of Cobble Hill, and Parlor Gallery/Ashbury. Previously, her work has exhibited in shows ranging from West 57th Street's Baron Boisanté to Ramis Barquet Gallery, Red Hook's Kentler Drawing Center, Brooklyn, and is included in institutional collections such as that of UBS, NYU and private collections in New York, Washington, Houston, Paris, Riyadh, London and Sydney.

I practice in a multi-disciplinary manner across diverse media and social inputs and focus on actively engaging the viewer in a visual conversation. The concept of poetic narration through visual media runs through my work, as does a reflection on the sources of, and how one recycles, creative energy. I use literal leftovers from different stages of my own work -- ideas, forms, emotions or material. Color drives my instinctive state of mind: hue, shade, tone, pigment, stain, wash, all bring vividness and an inspirational excitement.
Collected with the precision of a forensic scientist and with the patience of a librarian, paper strips emerge from my discarded and shredded personal documents, notes and paper artwork. Refusing to obey the old authority, they reinvent their own pattern, narrative and order out of the refuse's chaos. I redistribute fragments of discarded content on a rigorous grid to make the grid melt into a continuous and natural stream, such as the flow of the eye restlessly looking, scanning, reading through today’s visual profusion and yesterday’s news.