| “The shaping of a stone is as powerful a challenge as shaping one’s own spirit.”
Sculptor, Painter, Woman, Alisa Gabrielle is each and every one of these. Her endless passion has moved her to carve the stone and fill the canvas with the same devotion, strength and depth that she uses to sculpt and to color her own spirit.
The Goddesses in her canvasses are sensual, ripe, full, colorful, feminine forms. What it means to be a woman, a goddess, proud and powerful, fertile and vital, is the main theme of her work.
Each stone has dignity, elegance, and eternal quality. Alisa Gabrielle believes that “woman must own their dignity, beauty, and individual elegant essence. Men and woman alike must celebrate and honor the expression of all aspects of feminine strengths.”
Alisa spent many years as a teacher and psychotherapist, immersed in the processes that touch and move the human spirit. She transformed those processes, feelings and experiences into pieces of exquisite art that would reflect forever the longings, passions, and personal struggles of her own journey.
Throughout her life she has been in contact with the arts. She studied art history and traveled extensively to the great art centers of the world.
Art classes were not enough for her. She left for Pietrasanta, Italy to be where the finest sculptors, such as Michelangelo, had carved, and where the most beautiful Carrara marble originates. It was in that small town in Tuscany she sharpened her already strong technique. She spent each day pouring her heart and soul into the stones.
Some describe her work as voluptuous, some say it is erotic, others think it is pure sensuality. The thrust of her Art, says Ms. Gagrielle is, “the essence of a woman, a celebration of the feminine, and stirring deep feelings in those who view it.”
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