Born in Israel to Holocaust survivors, Gabriella Boros immigrated to the United States as
a young child. She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Art with a BFA
in 1984, where she studied intaglio, oil painting and graphic design. She spent a semester abroad at the Sir John Cass School Art in the winter of 1982.
Gabriella ran a marketing firm until 2001, when she devoted herself to painting fulltime. In addition to painting in acrylic on wood panel, Gabriella continues drawing in pen and ink, creating small art books, as well as creating repurposed constructions in “Cheese Box Frames.” Her curation projects have also been acclaimed.
Gabriella has been included in numerous solo and group shows since 1988. In 2012 she will show her Scroll Project at the South Shore Arts Center in Munster, Indiana. In 2011 she showed at the Quad City Arts Center in a show entitled Cultural Narratives, the Harold Washington Library for which she did an installation entitled The Scroll Project , as well as the South Shore Arts Center in Hammond, Indiana which housed her largest painting and curation project to date, entitled the Stone Project. In 2010 she had a solo show at Anshe Emet Synagogue of her pieces on wood panel, and was included in many group shows and venues including the Koehnline Museum in Des Plaines, Illinois; the Douglas Park Cultural Center in Chicago; work•detroit in Detroit MI; the Swedish Covenant Hospital Gallery in Chicago and Adamovo Rebro a traveling exhibit of feminist art based in Croatia. In 2009, she showed her work in a two-person show at the College of Lake County. Her international on-line www.astorytosee.com curation and project was also completed that year.A solo show at the University of Illinois in 2007, displayed 15 acrylic works on paper which describe a two-year investigation into a cinematographic style of narration. Also in 2007, she curated the show Marks on Paper: A Sketch and Drawing Show. Her solo show in 2006 at Schopf Gallery in Chicago displayed works in oil completed in 1990-96.
Gabriella’s work has been in numerous juried and group exhibits both national and international. She has shown in commercial galleries as well as museums and art centers. She continues to exhibit around the area and maintains a studio in her house in the suburbs of Chicago.
Her work is informed by the fact that she is female, a naturalized immigrant, the daughter of Shoah (Holocaust) survivors and a Jew. She makes subtle religious, cultural and geographical references to these themes in her art.
