The Broadway Gallery NYC is pleased to present

François Geffray

A Solo Show

December 15-31, with an opening reception on friday 18 December 6-8pm

French artist François Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. Having explored a vast array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied. Geffray’s work takes its primary focus in the form of people and culture. Geffray’s artwork takes a psychological perspective of the “other.” Drawing on images from day-to-day life Geffray’s work highlights both the highs and lows, contrasts and similarities between human relationships by producing morphed images that combine literal representation with metaphor.

Geffray’s striking paintings draw us into an enigmatic and sensual world of fantasy, seduction, and spirit. Geffray’s work features a variety of styles such as Surrealist figurative work, luscious quasi-abstraction, and folksy still life’s. Geffray’s work often appears formalist in its concerns; the artist is equally drawn to isolated and quiet places—as he is to crowds and chaos. The one strand linking the various facets of Geffray’s work is his overwhelming sense of fluidity, swelling brushstroke, and his sumptuous approach to applying paint on canvas. 

Color and form undulate in florid compositions that form an interior dialogue on the intersections of space, place, time, memory, culture and history.  Geffray’s new series of works in acrylic emphasize the leitmotif of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. Primarily a figurative artist, Geffray is known for paintings characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. His graceful portraits and lush narratives evoke a very personal idiom, distinguished by strong linear rhythms, simple extended composition, and verticality. This minimalist reduction is effective in its simplification of form, which like Plato’s ideal forms, function not as reality, but as an archetype of the land and sky which reside deep in our collective unconscious, as well as a representation of our deep connection with the earth. His work confronts the image of the individual, a subject Geffray repeatedly revisits.