USEUM has partnered with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy), to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting and illustration to the heart of the Art World in London. Le Dame Art Gallery will be exhibiting in various events the best of USEUM’s thousands of contemporary artists from 100 countries around the world. We are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event on Tuesday the 6th of October at 6.30pm and the exhibition will be on display for one month on the first floor of the prestigious Meliã White House 5-star hotel in Regent’s Park.
This collection is comprised by the 23 artworks exhibited by USEUM and Le Dame Art Gallery, on the first floor of Meliã White House from the 7th of October to the 7th of November and by many more artworks that were very close to be selected.
Daphne and Apollo 2008
Oil on linen · 61 x 76 cm
£3,000 at the 1st USEUM exhibition
‘A poster of Bernini's sculpture "Apollo and Daphne" at the Galleria Borghese in Rome was a major impetus behind this still life,’ says Margaretta Gilboy. A Cubist approach is eminent in the composition, found in the juxtaposition of angles and points of view, and the disruption of the space. In her work the artist presents three periods in the history of art (the Renaissance, the Post-modern and the Contemporary), as well as nature and culture, both high and low. The Venetian mirror in the centre of the painting shows a glimpse of the legs of the artist , who remains largely invisible.
About the Artist: After finishing her BFA at the Philadelphia College of Art, Margaretta Gilboy continued her studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder where she obtained her MFA. Her long career includes countless solo exhibitions, group shows, awards, grants and publications. Gilboy’s paintings, using mainly oil paint, demonstrate great mastery of artistic composition. She uses clear colours and bright patterns in her work without losing an aura of togetherness within the paintings. Outside her active career as a painter, Gilboy taught drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Pennsylvania from 1986 until 2002, after which she worked as an instructor of painting and drawing at the Arts League of Denver.
text by Jesse Voetman