The Artwork of Artist Toni Anita Gray of Chicago, Illinois
About This Work Of Art
Artist:
Toni Anita Gray
African American, born USA, Chicago, Illinois
1954-Present
Repent, 2005
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 183.5 cm (12 x 13 1/2 in.), framed
“Repent, oil on canvas, 2004, Toni A. Gray”
2005.1954A
Contemporary Art
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While studying in Chicago among much younger artists, and having an influential background in theatre and the performing arts and a business career as an Administrative Assistant in Chicago, Toni devoted herself to her own painting in the 1980's. Frustrated with visiting art galleries and retailers who sold beautiful art that she could not afford to purchase, Gray decided, she could "do that" and began painting because of her love for the linear perspectives.
Anita, determined to use a more dynamic sense of color in her paintings, in which colors appear to be more striking than they actually are to create a more abstract design is her talent and genius. This form of her work comes from inspiration, not modified by the materials used but is inspired by her own inner freedom, this artist is entirely a woman of hue, rhythm, flow and a kind of sculptural form using exotic shapes in design. The strength in this artist lies in her desire to produce a thrill to the human eyes at first glance and give each viewer a felling of the infinity of color through her on affinity.
Continually seeking a greater dignity in her work, these ideas gives it - its own descriptive methods in painting. When Gray ponders over her own unique vision of what she is to do or is doing, she sees in each piece a minute segment of herself, a component that is hidden, and dying to be revealed in in the creation of art.
This is Toni's story, in its entirety and unbroken, undamaged, save and sound. In her work and mind her goal is to lose control of the self, fall apart and get caught up in the God's created colors and the shapes inherent in the world. Toni is continually freaked out by art and color and as she gaze across the canvass and begin to use her tools, a picture emerges, sometimes thought-out and oft-times not! Her expressive brushstrokes that fantasizes her work, embedded in the back and foreground, providing the canvas with a lively animated Egyptian dramatic sense of movement, dimension, high-spirited, vivacious and vibrant life that is dedicated to the idea of Repentance.