ARTIST STATEMENT
This work is part of a series of six reduction prints comparing the ease of seed dispersal in contrast to the hardship of human birth. By continuing the pattern of the dispersal into the mother’s body, I am showing the commonality of experience. The beauty of the patterned seed pods is in contrast to the raw human form gestating a new life.
Violet seeds plants shoot the seeds out from the fruit more than 25 feet away after being brushed or touched.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gabriella Boros was born in Jerusalem, Israel to Holocaust survivors. The family immigrated and settled in the States for her father’s post-doctoral studies. A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Art, BFA ‘83, Gabriella has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally since 1986. She is the recipient of a State of Illinois Artist Grant and has completed four artist residencies; at Grand Marais Art Colony in Minnesota, 2018; at Bernheim Arboretum in Clermont, Kentucky, 2020; at Hortus Arboretum in the Catskills, 2022; at Soaring Gardens near Scranton, Pennsylvania. And this summer in Novi, Michigan at Villa David Barr Residency. She has been chosen for two fellowships; the Spertus Museum’s Midwest Artist Lab and Amen Institute’s Fellow of the Week. Her handmade books and prints can be found in various private and public collections. Gabriella most recently soloed Magical Botanicals at the Nature Museum in Chicago. Her feminist latex figures were included in the show Sex: Jewish Positions at the Joods Culturel Kwartier in Amsterdam in 2024-25. A permanent installation of her banners from woodblock prints entitled Ten Kentucky Women and Plants hangs at Bernheim Arboretum Clermont, Kentucky. Articles about Gabriella’s work include; In 2025, New City published Gabriella Boros finds Magic in Nature at the Nature Museum. In 2023, two prints in the inaugural issue of Verklempt magazine; in 2022 a lengthy article in Fukt magazine of international drawing entitled Kentucky Women; In 2021, The Filson Newsletter, The Filson Welcomes Kentucky Women; in 2020.
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