Georgina Gratix

Georgina Gratix

b. 1982, Mexico City, Mexico.
Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Cape Town-based Georgina Gratrix is one of the most exciting and innovative young artists on the South African contemporary art scene. Part mocking, part criticism, part play, Gratrix’s work offers an inverted visual take on the world. Instilled with her youthful energy and personal experience, her work is refreshing, entertaining and complex.

Gratrix’s provocative paintings are heavily imbued with a fun aesthetic and a sense of deprecating laughter. Extending from the grandeur and sacrosanct icons of traditional art canons, contemporary pop-culture and the artist herself, no social hierarchies are absolved as subjects. A thick, almost obscenely excessive application of oil paint forms the layers of make-up and decoration on her subjects’ faces and bodies. Portraiture is a favoured genre and while Gratrix prefers painting, her other mediums range from drawing and printmaking to collage and assemblage.

Artworks

Georgina Gratix
A Family Affair, 2018
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
Courtesy SMAC Gallery

Georgina Gratix
Lucky Ducks, 2018
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
Courtesy SMAC Gallery

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