Artworks

Ficre Ghebreyesus

Untitled, 2011

Acrylic on canvas

36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61 cm)
Framed: 38.5 x 26.5 x 2 inches (97.8 x 67.3 x 5.1 cm)

GL13520

As an Eritrean native and refugee who later settled in the US, the late artist Ficre Ghebreyesus often depicted subject matter that referenced the culture of his home.  In this shifting landscape work the idea of memories and dreams is evoked. Water and sea were frequent subject mater in the artist's work, the boundless sea and sky as an entry point to the unknown.  "And much of his work — semiabstract, opaquely autobiographical — has a dreamlike cast" says Holland Cotter in the New York Times of the artist's first solo exhibition in New York City, Gate to the Blue, recently staged at Galerie Lelong.