Conceptualist art, minimalist art, post - modern art: these forbidding terms characterize works of art which generally fail to engage, involve and interest the viewer. These works are part of closed circuit between artist and artwork. The work at Georgia Amar is entirely different. Embodying the artist's philosophical insights and aesthetic vision, the work, in a wide range of media always succeeds in involving the spectator. Her thought provokes the viewer's thought; her emotions, typically cool and understated, entice the emotional response of the viewer. Georgia Amar's art transforms the witness into collaborator in a series of novel and arresting insights and restructuring.
Whether working with lithographs, serigraphs, oils, fabrics, environmental installations, light or stained glass, Georgia's art softens and blurs the hard edge of much contemporary artwork. The dryness of such work is replaced in her case by a fluidity informed by a sense of the Pythagorean theogolgy of arithmetic. The sacred geometry of number and ratio of a spiritualist vision of the universe.
Colour in Georgia Amar's art is never static. Any given colour imperceptibly moves through a range of hues and intensities revealing a master hand at colour gradation. Perspectives suddenly shift causing the viewer to reassess awareness of self in space. Popular but not populist, the multi-media work of Georgia Amar transforms a wall or space into a privileged place of contemplation, a place of withdrawal from the surrounding world so that the viewer, focusing on a inner calm, may emerge from the experience of concentration newly energized.
Graphics, canvass, fabric, mural, glass: surfaces for the celebration of the artist's creativity.
Bryan Dobbs, PhD, Toronto, Ontario