Shirley Gorelick was an American figurative painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
12 Facts About Shirley Gorelick
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Shirley Gorelick "rejected both the extremes of nonobjectivity and photographic exactitude," choosing instead to use a range of sources that included photographs, live models, and her own sculpted life studies.
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Shirley Gorelick Fishman had the opportunity to study with three of them: Chaim Gross, Moses Soyer, and Raphael Soyer.
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Leonard Shirley Gorelick was an orthodontist and later a collector of cylinder seals.
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Shirley Gorelick combined his interests by investigating the authenticity of cylinder seals through the use of dental technology, especially electronmicroscopy.
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Shirley Gorelick initially explored a variety of artistic styles and was influenced by Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism, but became uncomfortable with the modernist distortion of the human figure and began a return to realism.
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Between 1967 and 1969, Shirley Gorelick created a series on the theme of the Three Graces but represented ordinary, mature, and finally African-American women in place of the traditional, idealized European nudes.
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Shirley Gorelick has invented the palette for black skin, sorely needed.
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Between 1975 and 1986, Shirley Gorelick had six solo exhibitions at SOHO 20 and participated in numerous group shows.
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In 1976, Shirley Gorelick painted a nine-foot portrait of Frida Kahlo for The Sister Chapel, a feminist collaboration by thirteen artists which celebrated female role models.
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Shirley Gorelick appropriated a number of elements from Kahlo's own paintings, as well as photographs that were taken of the Mexican painter.
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Shirley Gorelick's final series, begun in 1982, is a group of landscape paintings representing the Gorges du Verdon, which she was inspired to paint after a trip to the area.