Giselle Ayupova
Giselle Ayupova is a contemporary painter who has exhibited in the New York / New Jersey metropolitan area. Notable exhibitions include shows at the Art Students League in New York, Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and Monroe Center for the Arts in New Jersey. Publications include Voyage Houston Thought Provokers: Celebrating Artists and Creatives and The Hoboken Reporter. Giselle describes her paintings as “simplified shapes with a focus on finding an exciting color interaction and pattern relationship” and “ striving towards simplification and flattening of forms”.
Although Giselle works in both representational and non-objective abstract art, her paintings based on real life subject matter tends to arguably be more relevant due to their inclinations with softened form, through carefully placed and highly colorful tones. With still lifes, landscapes, and portraits, Giselle explores complex compositions with seemingly familiar subject matter. Her spatial intervals seem precise and carefully choreographed, for example, the still lifes appear as if assembled like a work of art, often containing colorful pastel cakes and teacups to represent an almost mystical appearance.
The sophistication and unique application of color represents a multi-faceted palette dipped richly in a mix of neon tones and pastels combined with soft, gradual yet textural brush strokes. Giselle’s still lifes represent a sense of harmony in a chaotic world while her landscapes and figurative depictions tend to enhance features of natural subjects to feel alive and vibrant. In other words her subject matter feels as if breathing and moving, much like the work of Vincent Van Gogh, but without the erratic brushwork.
Still Life Painting With Pink Cake (pictured above) remains a depiction of immense cuteness with bold pastels with a highly refined composition. Much like the kitsch art of Jeff Koons, the painting reveals decadent inclinations to idealize the easiest comforts in life, such as a delicious cake. The painting reflects notions beyond familiarity in the dream-like application of the colors and brushwork, creating a mystical illusion of a cake on a table, rather than a representation.
Giselle Ayupova can be described as a gifted painter who conveys unique applications and approaches to familiar subject matter. Through playful color and form, reminiscent of the post-impressionists, with post-modern inclinations of clean presentation, Giselle’s precise surfaces and compositions orchestrate well with plenty of negative space providing spatial intervals. She provides for us scenarios where we can imagine a dream-like storybook out-of-body experience state of mind, as if we were to travel to the inside of a doll house and view the world through the eyes of a toy. The structures within her paintings, be they natural or artificial, reflect toy-like and child-like depictions of traditional art but with an explorative mindset through fantastical colors and harmonized, cropped compositions. An immensely flamboyant painter, Giselle Ayupova expresses the intricacies of painting with a contemporary eye and inclination with immense grace and precise, vibrant form reminiscent of high refinement, such as the French Rococo period.
