My Country 2005

Sally Gabori made "My Country" with paint and crayon on canvas, and it bursts with colors that feel like emotions turned into landscapes. There’s a real immediacy here, isn’t there? The surface feels almost raw, like the paint was applied with a kind of joyful urgency. The blues and pinks and yellows aren’t blended so much as they are layered, creating a texture that’s both rough and tender. Look at that patch of dark blue at the top; it’s like a storm cloud, but also, maybe a comforting shadow. You can almost feel her hand moving across the canvas. Gabori’s work reminds me a little of Joan Mitchell, not in terms of style but in the way both artists use color to evoke feeling, and memory. Like Mitchell, Gabori embraces ambiguity. It is about capturing the essence of a place, not just its appearance. It's a conversation between what we see and what we feel, leaving space for our own interpretations.