Gabby Gawreluk

FAVORITE BEVERAGE RECIPE

Shaken Cold Brew With Orange

  • Handful of ice cubes

  • 8-12oz cold brew

  • Small mason jar with lid

  • Milk or milk substitute (half & half slaps in this)

  • Peel from half a cutie one long peel from an orange

Fill your mason jar with 2-3 ice cubes, add cold brew. Add your usual amount of milk of choice. I usually add a light swig of half & half. Express the orange peel by rolling them length ways in your fingers over the cold brew, then plop them in. Place lid tightly on the mason jar and shake for 15-20 seconds or until you have a bomb froth going. Remove lid and top with more ice and more cold brew.

BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Minnesota, Gabby received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  In 2018, she completed one year expanding her art practice as a special student at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.  From 2019-2020, she attended Colorado State University as a Post-Baccalaureate student.  Gabby creates functional and sculptural ceramics that is wheel thrown as well as constructed from slabs of clay.  Her work is featured in both juried and invitational shows in galleries around the nation.  Currently she resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota where she is the Anonymous Artists Fellow at Northern Clay Center.  

ARTIST STATEMENT

meal represents a marriage of flavors, memories, and is a way to share emotions and experiences.  Food allows you to recreate and even taste a memory, providing comfort beyond one’s taste buds.  Hot dogs folded up with a simple slice of bread brings me back to dinner time with my dad when my mom is out of town.  

 Understanding how to cook is comparable to understanding color theory. Complementary colors such as orange and blue impact the eye in a harmonious way, just as the combination of lemon and thyme produce a refreshing flavor that seems to dance on one’s taste buds. The way that food looks is the first sensory criteria that one uses when decided whether or not to consume the meal.   

My work is presented to the viewer in a simple and organized fashion.  The pared down shapes and mellow colors suggest nostalgia and represent a parody of the food items that come from both my memory and my imagination. The appetizing still lives painted by American painter Wayne Thiebaud serve as inspiration for composition, color, and subject matter within my work.  Imitating food items by reducing their form into a merely recognizable shape and colors are boiled down and exaggerated until a cartoon-like form is all that is left.  The permanence of clay allows me to find humor in giving my food items a never-ending expiration date.  The messy process and physical rigor of clay of clay satisfies my inner child, body and mind. 

The things that I make create a space that is a glimpse inside my own world - a world that is an accumulation of my memories and how those memories and curiosities connect back to this world. My artworks goal is to stimulate and create a conversation propelled by the viewers minds versus their stomach.  

Instagram: @g_luckceramics 
Website: www.gabbygawreluk.com