For Ana Cabrera Grohs, the act of painting represents a
journey, an adventure into the realms of personal
experience, sensation, and emotion. Though her
compositions are decidedly abstract, they reference
distinct occurrences in Cabrera Grohs' life, both
internal and external, which she communicates to viewers
not only through the art itself, but also through the
act of creating that art.
Inspiration comes to Cabrera Grohs in a multitude of
ways and from a variety of sources, within and without,
and it is the process of taking those inspirations and
materializing them into art that adds meaning to her
work. Yes, her paintings visually enrich the lives of
all who see them, but they also enrich on cerebral,
spiritual, and psychological levels.
Beauty, discovery, growth, awareness, evolution-- these
qualities and more are embodied in Cabrera Grohs'
artwork. Every painting she creates reveals a story, and
stands as an aesthetic testimonial of life as she
experiences it. Her art has personal significance for
her, of course, but it also offers possibilities to you,
the viewer, in that it invites you to participate in her
vision, and ultimately to find that special significance
of your own.
Alan Bamberger. 2008
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Ana Cabrera Grohs’ art is a vibrant expression of the
inner feelings of someone who has much to say and has
found a way to say it second to none. Ana paints from
the heart and her heart is full of color and
life and vibrancy. If you hang one of her paintings on
your wall, it is not simply a picture of something. It
is a part of the artist that speaks to you and lifts up
your spirits every time you see it. How do you
capture life and emotions? Ana has found the way. She
has a great future and her work will gain in importance
as more and more people are exposed to it.David
Phillips. 2008
Publications Director -
Fine Art Registry
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Ana Cabrera
Grohs creates, through her particular manner of attracting light and meaning from the movement of the existence, world representations which may in a first approach appear vertiginous at times and pleasant at other times.
The suspicion arises when paying thoughtful attention at the same time as we run into voices and silences, installed in the colors and in the figures.
A frame which crosses the abyss without becoming what it should become: a door. “The man passes by”, Blanchot said: “he has always passed by … but he screams when passing by … he does not scream: It is the whisper of the scream”. |
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The exuberance of red and blue colors, crossed by an ample aperture palette, exhibit the aesthetics of her particular internal voice held upon the yellow colors of the apparent quietness of her landscapes protected by a clear sky. I say apparent because she transmigrates from the chaos of some of her abstractions to the shapes she subsequently assigns to nature and to human representations.
The order she confers to them, comes from someplace high and her creatures look at the light, exhibiting their backs (Initiation) very similar to the platonic conception of the cave myth. Don’t you think that it is in contrast where said little piece of silence is better debated, between the non defined word and the presence of sitting women, as if they were in a contemplation stage?
The painting with the Iris pointing at the center, is it a restitution? Delicate elements among the strength of an exuberant nature. Disrupting is the installation of the human shape looking at the entrance of a cave, a mysterious place itself. It may be a poetic transposition of the myth of origin with the presence of the indefinite and the conjugation, at another moment of the nature series and her manifested project.
Yet her paintings combine the sensual sensibility with the spiritual sensibility. It is a combination which is not paradoxical at all but a harmonious and absolute coexistence, where hesitation may also be present. The vitality and strength of lines and colors break the routine itself, setting the silence of the painting in its best place. Metaphors give depth to the immediate, in the certainty she provides us with her vision of the world, another interpretation.
Julia Rocha. 2007
The art, in all its expressions, requires an especial contemplation as a modifying possibility of the human condition. In order to make it happen we should find the clue where the requirement of expression is inevitably projected by the color gesture and the material. And the person executing said gesture, exposing - even with the gentlest caress - her whole life.
I believe Ana Cabrera
Grohs’ artwork reveals herself in the above mentioned manner, strongly signifying images which inhabit her, like a tenacious artist. With plenty of optimism and consciousness, her artwork spreads the vitality of a remarkable artist, a fertile nature who is permanently creating a laudable expressive synthesis.
Creating metaphors from intensity, Ana Cabrera
Grohs determines never-ending quests for light, life and the encounter with other revelations. Her project is an ethic decision consistent with sensibility, where the earth provides us with new inspirations every day.
Luis Debairosmoura. 2006
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