I AM FEST

GABRIELLE LIZETTE DUBOIS | http://gldubois.com/

I AM FEST 2009, 2010, 2011

Gabrielle Lizette DuBois is ridiculously excited to once again be participating in IAMFEST. She has had the honor of being an exhibiting artist and showing her work each year since the FEST began in 2009. This year she could not be more happy to be involved in painting live on stage with the bands. Painting with Kelsey Montanez at IAMFEST 2010 was such a blast for her, she can not wait to do it again.

Gabrielle is a painter, who did most of her growing up in Neenah, Wisconsin where she had an adventurous childhood fueled by her own imagination. Most of her training comes from studying fine arts for two years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside while completing her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts with a design and technology concentration.

Her favorite and most distinct subject matter featured in her work is the female form. Often the figures in Gabrielle’s work are without all the physical traits that define the standard appearance of a human. Her figures tend to showcase accentuated curves, featureless faces, and missing extremities in a confined and isolated frame. The voiceless and defenseless females in her work represent everyone and no one simultaneously. Without faces they lose their individuality and without arms they are vulnerable, which results in them being forever incomplete, forever fragmented. The themes found in her work are greatly influenced by the many different and ever changing relationships in her life.

While oil painting on smooth wood will always be her first love, Gabrielle expresses herself with whatever traditional media she can get her hands on: from paints to pencils to inks. With the tools at hand, Gabrielle strives to create sensual and rich images. Her signature style focuses on fluid and smooth blending shapes and colors. Gabrielle hopes her introspective and incomplete images will relate to her audience on a personal and emotional level.

When not working to pay the bills she can be found working on her paintings in the studio in her home: a quaint space she shares with her roommates: a talkative bright green parrot, an egg-laying albino parakeet and a rambunctious little pup.