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In my paintings, I utilize holistic approaches to imagining, creating, and producing original visual impressions of nature through experimentations in the use of color expressed in abstractions, symbolism, and naturalism. The use of color in my paintings holds significant meaning and is symbolic where blue represents infinitives of life and orange is the energy of a sprite light of life. The synergy is the essence of the natural as well as the spiritual world.
– Mekbib Gebertsadik
Mekbib Gebertsadik, a native son of Ethiopia, completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995 from the School of Fine Arts and Design at Addis Ababa University under the painting mentorship and training of the renowned artist Ale Felege Selam (1924-2016). In 2001, Gebertsadik relocated to the United States where he continued his studies in fine arts. After obtaining a graduate certificate in graphic design from Gibbs College (Vienna, Virginia) his artistic endeavors led him to Howard University in Washington, D.C. to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in painting where the legendary Ethiopian artist Alexander “Skunder” Boghossian (1937-2003) taught for over 20 years. Gebertsadik’s artwork is internationally acclaimed and has been exhibited in the Netherlands, Belgium, various embassies, and cultural institutions as well as in the collection of many foreign institutions and dignitaries. Adding to his artistic repertoire, Gebertsadik has completed several public art commissions. The Ethiopian government has recognized his mastery of the visual arts and commissioned him to lead a community public art collaboration at his alma mater and the Ale School of Art and Design named for his mentor Ale Felege Selam in Addis Ababa.
From an early age, Gebertsadik’s life has been consumed with understanding nature and human existence. It is a personal sensory perception that culminates his experiences of vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch which provides intuitive thought and imagination of the self within an external landscape. His training under artist Ale Felege Selam in landscape painting accentuated Gebertsadik’s consciousness of nature and its interpretation. In his artwork, he experiments with color and light using his canvas symbolically as an extension of nature that nurtures the energy and life forces of each painting. The use of color and abstraction is reminiscent of the emotional evocative landscapes of American painter Richard Mayhew. However, the symbolism of light and treatment of form, lines, and space is reflective of the artist’s, Gebertsadik, understanding of the medium as a source of life for his paintings. Gebertsadik believes through light all can be revealed, which is the sine qua non of life. It is the essential of being which is indispensable.
In his current work, Gebertsadik combines activism for environmental conservation and mastery of landscape painting to convey the importance of the cohabitation of trees with human existence and the challenges for the environment. Without using paint brushes, Gebertsadik uses the natural elements of air, water, and gravity as instruments of artistic expression to create what he refers to as “Art-Synthesis.” These natural elements are part of a sustainable creative process that synthesizes compressed air, water, and gravity to form the essence of nature to artistically paint on canvas.
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